See commit: commit 948252cb9e01d65a89ecadf67be5018351eee15e Author: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 31 19:27:48 2011 -0700 Revert "net: fix section mismatches" This reverts commit e5cb966c0838e4da43a3b0751bdcac7fe719f7b4. It causes new build regressions with gcc-4.2 which is pretty common on non-x86 platforms. Reported-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and postings that led to this revert including: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130653748205263&w=2