The patch titled kbuild: whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is whitelist-references-from-__dbe_table-to-init.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kbuild: whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this patch modpost will throw spurious warnings: LD vmlinux SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/mod/modpost.c~whitelist-references-from-__dbe_table-to-init scripts/mod/modpost.c --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c~whitelist-references-from-__dbe_table-to-init +++ a/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ static int initexit_section_ref_ok(const ".machvec", /* ia64 + powerpc uses these */ ".machine.desc", ".opd", /* See comment [OPD] */ + "__dbe_table", ".parainstructions", ".pdr", ".plt", /* seen on ARCH=um build on x86_64. Harmless */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are lots-of-architectures-enable-arbitary-speed-tty-support.patch git-mips.patch tty-add-the-new-ioctls-and-definitionto-the-mips.patch git-netdev-all.patch serial_txx9-fix-modem-control-line-handling.patch serial_txx9-cleanup-includes.patch update-zilog-timeout.patch zs-move-to-the-serial-subsystem.patch zsc-drain-the-transmission-line.patch drivers-pmc-msp71xx-gpio-char-driver.patch sb1250-duartc-sb1250-duart-serial-support.patch whitelist-references-from-__dbe_table-to-init.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html