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[PATCH] remove modpost false warnings on ARM
authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:58:16 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:10:16 +0000 (17:10 -0800)
commitda68d61f89e275260cc993a0d4a39e63700098fb
tree2b54d5e695cc233045cb854d7e1fc7470cd6d3a6
parent3deac046e2883686a732960050ab74fca0db11fa
[PATCH] remove modpost false warnings on ARM

This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM
builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer.  A canonical
example would be driver method table entries:

  WARNING: <path> - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:<name>_remove
from .data after '$d' (at offset 0x4)

That "$d" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in
this case it's a symbol **in the middle of** a "<name>_driver" struct.

The erroneous warnings appear to be issued because "modpost" whitelists
references from "<name>_driver" data into init and exit sections ...  but
doesn't know should also include those "$d" mapping symbols, which are not
otherwise associated with "<name>_driver" symbols.

This patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning
those mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead.
Then things work as expected.

Now to revert various code-bloating "fixes" that got merged because of this
modpost bug....

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/mod/modpost.c