From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755832AbYJZSf1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:35:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752917AbYJZSfS (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:35:18 -0400 Received: from harold.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.133.65]:52201 "EHLO harold.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752599AbYJZSfQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:35:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:35:13 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jean Delvare cc: Wolfgang Grandegger , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: w83781d doesn't link when built-in In-Reply-To: <20081026163624.622a0931@hyperion.delvare> Message-ID: References: <20081026163624.622a0931@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:20:26 +0100 (CET), Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > When w83781d is built-in, the final links fails with the following vague error > > message: > > > > `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined > > in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o > > > > w83781d_isa_unregister() cannot be marked __exit, as it's also called from > > sensors_w83781d_init(), which is marked __init. > > Good catch, thanks for reporting. For some reason the link doesn't fail > here. Probably w83781d_isa_unregister() got inlined? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds