Section mismatch in 2.6.23-rc4

Hommel, Thomas (GE Indust, GE Fanuc) Thomas.Hommel at gefanuc.com
Fri Aug 31 22:25:34 EST 2007


When compiling a kernel, I get the warnings below. 
I am using ARCH=powerpc and 'make mpc8641_hpcn_defconfig', 'make
uImage'. This didn't appear in 2.6.22, but in
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S and setup_32.c, the section info
apparently didn't change. 


  LD      vmlinux.o
  MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x18): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:early_init (between '__start' and '__after_mmu_off')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3788): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:machine_init (between 'start_here' and 'set_context')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3790): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:MMU_init (between 'start_here' and 'set_context')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x37ba): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:start_kernel (between 'start_here' and 'set_context')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x37be): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:start_kernel (between 'start_here' and 'set_context')
  LD      vmlinux
  SYSMAP  System.map




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