On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:07:40PM +0200, Paweł Sikora wrote: > Hi, > > the modular kernel fails to build: > > (...) > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST 3571 modules > > WARNING: drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.o(.init.text+0x1f): Section mismatch in > reference from the function init_module() to the function > .exit.text:fcoe_transport_exit() > The function __init init_module() references > a function __exit fcoe_transport_exit(). > This is often seen when error handling in the init function > uses functionality in the exit path. > The fix is often to remove the __exit annotation of > fcoe_transport_exit() so it may be used outside an exit section. > > WARNING: drivers/staging/ipack/bridges/tpci200.o(.data+0x28): Section > mismatch in reference from the variable tpci200_pci_drv to the function > .devexit.text:tpci200_pci_remove() > The variable tpci200_pci_drv references > the function __devexit tpci200_pci_remove() > If the reference is valid then annotate the > variable with __exit* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: > *driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
Those are section mismatch warnings, see the help to CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
