From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932196AbWGRNfF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:35:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932205AbWGRNfF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:35:05 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59550 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932196AbWGRNfE (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:35:04 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: Odd build warning with 2.6.17.6 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:10:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20060717180456.GA27612@bostik.iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 80.53.205.170 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mika Bostrom bostik.iki.fi> writes: > > Good day. > > I got the following, rather odd warning when building 2.6.17.6: > > MODPOST > WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.data: from .text between 'acpi_processor_power_init' (at offset > 0xe80) and 'acpi_safe_halt' > > No idea whether it affects anything for real, just thought it worth a > mention. My .config is attached. > Hi, I think they had to begin sometime earlier in 2.6.17 - I've plenty of them with every (re)make on ver. 2.6.17.4, but because it is workink I stopped to look at them. I'm very surprised nobody answered you, as if it was something uncommon. If I could remember well, they are not present when full kernel is built - only when some drivers are changed and rebuild. I'll try to look at it again later. Jarek P.