MODPOST section mismatches

[Steve Heflin]

At 07:30 PM 2/22/2008, you wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:07:37 -0500
>Steve Heflin <sheflin at newagemicro.com> wrote:
>
> > At 05:36 PM 2/22/2008, you wrote:
> > >On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:52 -0500
> > >Steve Heflin <sheflin at newagemicro.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > FLAT_MEM is one of the configuration options:
> > > >        CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y
> > >
> > >That has to do with NUMA stuff.  It really doesn't have much bearing on
> > >the section warnings.
> >
> > ah, thanks for setting me straight. I thought it meant that
> > everything existed in a flat address space and existed in memory at
> > the same time, and therefore the different section warnings might 
> not apply.
>
>Nah.  The section warnings come about because if something is marked
>__init but referenced in a function that isn't then an oops could occur
>because the __init sections are discarded after a certain point in the
>kernel boot.  The same is true for __devinit, etc.
>
>So the section warnings are still bugs that need fixing, but they're
>orthogonal to the memory model for the most part.
>
>josh

Isn't there a way to keep the __init sections from being discarded 
such that I can run it without an oops occurring?

thanks for your help!
Steve