section mismatch in drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Jan 28 06:56:38 EST 2013


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when building 3.8-rc5 I get the following section mismatch:
> 
> WARNING: drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.o(.data+0x188): Section mismatch in
> reference from the variable w1_gpio_driver to the function
> .init.text:w1_gpio_probe()
> The variable w1_gpio_driver references
> the function __init w1_gpio_probe()
> If the reference is valid then annotate the
> variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
> *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
> 
> 
> The __init in front of w1_gpio_probe() should be removed.

Great, care to send a patch doing just that so I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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