Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: silence section mismatch warnings

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On May 11, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> -----
>
> Forgot lkml in first mail...
>
> 	Sam
>
> Subject: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: silence section mismatch warnings
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 23:03:46 +0200
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i
> To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
> 	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
> 	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
> 	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
> Cc: sam@ravnborg.org
>
> Following patch allow us in specific places to silence section  
> mismatch warnings.
> There is a few legitime places that modpost does not yet recognize  
> where
> reference from .text to .init.text (likewise for data) are legitime.
> This allow us to spot the few places and annotate them so we do not
> get false warnings that in the end will let real warnings pass.
>
> The annotation is simple to grep for so revieing all uses in a few
> months time are trivial. It is assumed that a few places will
> use this to shut up the warning as replacement for the real fix.
> But these cases are esay to spot and to fix up.

Its unclear if you expect that some things will be tagged  
__init_refok/__initdata_refok forever or if we'll find some way to  
fix/change the code so the things tagged no longer need it.

> With this and the following two patches I have a section mismatch free
> build.
> The plan is that a section mismatch soon will graduate from a  
> warning to an error.
> This will hurt a few drives but then they have an incentive to fix  
> it up.
>
> Comments welcome.

- k