[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 3/3] fbdev/ps3fb: fix section mismatch warning for ps3fb_probe

Vladimir Murzin murzin.v at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 02:47:21 EST 2013


While cross-building for PPC64 I've got

WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x9f9ca): Section mismatch in
reference from the function .ps3fb_probe() to th e variable
.init.data:ps3fb_fix The function .ps3fb_probe() references the
variable __initdata ps3fb_fix.  This is often because .ps3fb_probe
lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of ps3fb_fix is wrong.

WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x9f9d2): Section mismatch in
reference from the function .ps3fb_probe() to the variable
.init.data:ps3fb_fix The function .ps3fb_probe() references the
variable __initdata ps3fb_fix.  This is often because .ps3fb_probe
lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of ps3fb_fix is wrong.

WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xe222a): Section mismatch in
reference from the function .ps3fb_probe() to the variable
.init.data:ps3fb_fix The function .ps3fb_probe() references the
variable __initdata ps3fb_fix.  This is often because .ps3fb_probe
lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of ps3fb_fix is wrong.

WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xe2232): Section mismatch in
reference from the function .ps3fb_probe() to the variable
.init.data:ps3fb_fix The function .ps3fb_probe() references the
variable __initdata ps3fb_fix.  This is often because .ps3fb_probe
lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of ps3fb_fix is wrong.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x561d4a): Section mismatch in reference from
the function .ps3fb_probe() to the variable .init.data:ps3fb_fix The
function .ps3fb_probe() references the variable __initdata ps3fb_fix.
This is often because .ps3fb_probe lacks a __initdata annotation or
the annotation of ps3fb_fix is wrong.

Mismatch was introduced with 48c68c4f "Drivers: video: remove __dev*
attributes."

Remove __init data annotation from ps3fb_fix.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/video/ps3fb.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/ps3fb.c b/drivers/video/ps3fb.c
index dbfe2c1..b269abd 100644
--- a/drivers/video/ps3fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/ps3fb.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static struct fb_ops ps3fb_ops = {
 	.fb_compat_ioctl = ps3fb_ioctl
 };
 
-static struct fb_fix_screeninfo ps3fb_fix __initdata = {
+static struct fb_fix_screeninfo ps3fb_fix = {
 	.id =		DEVICE_NAME,
 	.type =		FB_TYPE_PACKED_PIXELS,
 	.visual =	FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR,
-- 
1.7.10.4



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