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author | David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> | 2007-02-20 13:58:16 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-20 17:10:16 -0800 |
commit | da68d61f89e275260cc993a0d4a39e63700098fb (patch) | |
tree | 2b54d5e695cc233045cb854d7e1fc7470cd6d3a6 /drivers/isdn/gigaset/Makefile | |
parent | 3deac046e2883686a732960050ab74fca0db11fa (diff) |
[PATCH] remove modpost false warnings on ARM
This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM
builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer. A canonical
example would be driver method table entries:
WARNING: <path> - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:<name>_remove
from .data after '$d' (at offset 0x4)
That "$d" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in
this case it's a symbol **in the middle of** a "<name>_driver" struct.
The erroneous warnings appear to be issued because "modpost" whitelists
references from "<name>_driver" data into init and exit sections ... but
doesn't know should also include those "$d" mapping symbols, which are not
otherwise associated with "<name>_driver" symbols.
This patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning
those mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead.
Then things work as expected.
Now to revert various code-bloating "fixes" that got merged because of this
modpost bug....
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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