The patch titled serial: silence section mismatch warnings in 8250_pci has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci.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: serial: silence section mismatch warnings in 8250_pci From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix following warnings: WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x5b8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_ite887x_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x5e0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x608): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x658): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x680): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x6a8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x6d0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x6f8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x720): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x748): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() pci_serial_quirks contains a number of function pointers where the referenced function is annotated __devexit. This is OK so we annotate pci_serial_quirks with __refdata to ignore the __devexit references Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/serial/8250_pci.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/serial/8250_pci.c~serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci drivers/serial/8250_pci.c --- a/drivers/serial/8250_pci.c~serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci +++ a/drivers/serial/8250_pci.c @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ pci_default_setup(struct serial_private * This list is ordered alphabetically by vendor then device. * Specific entries must come before more generic entries. */ -static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] = { +static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] __refdata = { /* * ADDI-DATA GmbH communication cards <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> */ _ 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