[PATCH] crypto: talitos - Fix modpost warning

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 4 01:52:29 EST 2008


On Dec 3, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:29:16PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Removed __devexit from talitos_remove() since its also called from
>> talitos_probe().
>>
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x28a008): Section mismatch in reference  
>> from the function talitos_probe() to the  
>> function .devexit.text:talitos_remove()
>> The function talitos_probe() references a function in an exit  
>> section.
>> Often the function talitos_remove() has valid usage outside the  
>> exit section
>> and the fix is to remove the __devexit annotation of talitos_remove.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>
> OK, but what about the __devexit_p reference on talitos_remove?
> We should remove that too.

missed that one.  will fix up and post a new patch.

- k



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