The patch titled acpi: fix section mismatch in processor_core.c:acpi_processor_hotplug_notify has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-processor_corecacpi_processor_hotplug_notify.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** 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 The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi: fix section mismatch in processor_core.c:acpi_processor_hotplug_notify From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x55586c): Section mismatch in reference from the function acpi_processor_hotplug_notify() to the function .cpuinit.text:acpi_processor_start() acpi_processor_hotplug_notify() may safely reference __cpuinit stuff as it ids defined inside an ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU block. So annotate it __ref to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-processor_corecacpi_processor_hotplug_notify drivers/acpi/processor_core.c --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-processor_corecacpi_processor_hotplug_notify +++ a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c @@ -886,8 +886,8 @@ int acpi_processor_device_add(acpi_handl return 0; } -static void -acpi_processor_hotplug_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data) +static void __ref acpi_processor_hotplug_notify(acpi_handle handle, + u32 event, void *data) { struct acpi_processor *pr; struct acpi_device *device = NULL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx are samples-build-fix.patch git-acpi.patch acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-acpi_pci_root_add.patch acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-processor_corecacpi_processor_hotplug_notify.patch acer-wmi-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch alsa-caiaq-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch cpufreq-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch drivers-base-cpu-fix-section-mismatch-in-cpucstore_online.patch git-kbuild.patch pcmcia-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-from-class_interface-variables.patch pcmcia-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-from-pci_driver-variables.patch pcmcia-annotate-cb_alloc-with-__ref.patch serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci.patch pci-fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-pci_scan_child_bus.patch scsi-fix-section-mismatch-in-aic94xx.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-unregister_cpu_notifier.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-cpu_down.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-reference-to-register_cpu_notifier.patch tpm-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch rtc-silence-section-mismatch-warning-in-rtc-test.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