From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964879AbWFHQnB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:43:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964899AbWFHQnB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:43:01 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:43178 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964879AbWFHQnA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:43:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:45:47 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Barry Scott Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc6 Section mismatch warnings Message-Id: <20060608094547.efc7a10e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <4488057A.9090301@onelan.co.uk> References: <4488057A.9090301@onelan.co.uk> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:09:46 +0100 Barry Scott wrote: > When I built 2.6.17-rc6 I see a lot of warnings after the MODPOST message > about Section mismatch. What did I do wrong in building the kernel and > modules? Nothing (well, I would use "make all" instead of the last 2 commands and I would use ketchup or http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/grab-kernel-rc to optionally download and create new kernel dirs. :) I'll look at the warnings. Some of them are noise/bogus, I expect... > I used these commands to build 2.6.17-rc6 on FC4: > $ tar xjf ~/Downloads/linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 > $ mv linux-2.6.16 linux-2.6.17-rc6 > $ cd linux-2.6.17-rc6 > $ bzcat ~/Downloads/patch-2.6.17-rc6.bz2| patch -p1 > $ cp /boot/config-2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 > ~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6/.config > $ make O=~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6 silentoldconfig > (took the defaults for all new config items) > $ make O=~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6 >make-1.log 2>&1 > $ make O=~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6 modules >make-2.log 2>&1 > > Here are some of the warnings: > > MODPOST > WARNING: drivers/input/misc/wistron_btns.o - Section mismatch: reference > to .init.text:dmi_matched from .data between 'dmi_ids' (at offset 0x120) > and 'keymap_aopen_1559as' > ... > WARNING: drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:setup_teles0 from .text between 'checkcard' (at offset > 0x11a5) and 'hisax_register' > ... > WARNING: drivers/net/3c501.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:el1_probe from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x146) > and 'el_reset' > WARNING: drivers/net/3c503.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.data: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x47c) and > 'el2_block_output' > WARNING: drivers/net/3c503.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.data: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x485) and > 'el2_block_output' > ... > WARNING: drivers/net/wd.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: > from .text after 'init_module' (at offset 0x47d) > WARNING: drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.o - Section mismatch: > reference to .init.text: from .text between 'megaraid_probe_one' (at > offset 0x1f00) and 'megaraid_queue_command' > WARNING: drivers/video/aty/atyfb.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.data: from .text between 'atyfb_pci_probe' (at offset 0x297f) and > 'atyfb_set_par' > WARNING: drivers/video/aty/atyfb.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:aty_init_cursor from .text between 'atyfb_pci_probe' (at > offset 0x2dc1) and 'atyfb_set_par' > WARNING: drivers/video/macmodes.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:mac_find_mode from __ksymtab between > '__ksymtab_mac_find_mode' (at offset 0x0) and > '__ksymtab_mac_map_monitor_sense' > WARNING: fs/jffs2/jffs2.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:jffs2_zlib_init from .text between 'jffs2_compressors_init' > (at offset 0x81) and 'jffs2_compressors_exit' > WARNING: sound/isa/sb/snd-sbawe.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:snd_emu8000_new from .text between 'snd_sb16_probe' (at > offset 0x440) and 'snd_sb16_nonpnp_remove' > WARNING: sound/isa/snd-opl3sa2.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text: from .text between 'snd_opl3sa2_pnp_cdetect' (at offset > 0xe61) and 'snd_opl3sa2_pnp_detect' > WARNING: sound/isa/snd-opl3sa2.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text: from .text between 'snd_opl3sa2_pnp_detect' (at offset > 0xf52) and 'snd_opl3sa2_put_single' --- ~Randy