From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763051AbXGYHP2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:15:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754156AbXGYHPE (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:15:04 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:32827 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764165AbXGYHPB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:15:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:14:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Kumar Gala X-X-Sender: galak@blarg.am.freescale.net To: sam@ravnborg.org cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Andy Fleming , Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: modpost warning question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from .init.text The following addresses the issue, however I don't particularly like it: diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c index ac3596f..100bf41 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ int __init gfar_mdio_init(void) return driver_register(&gianfar_mdio_driver); } -void __exit gfar_mdio_exit(void) +void gfar_mdio_exit(void) { driver_unregister(&gianfar_mdio_driver); } diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h index 5d34004..b373091 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h @@ -42,5 +42,5 @@ struct gfar_mii { int gfar_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum); int gfar_mdio_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum, u16 value); int __init gfar_mdio_init(void); -void __exit gfar_mdio_exit(void); +void gfar_mdio_exit(void); #endif /* GIANFAR_PHY_H */