Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

Hi Adrian

> > I did not find a way to look up the offending symbol but maybe some elf
> > expert can help?
> >...
>  
> I'm not an ELF expert, but simply checking all __init functions in this 
> files finds that this seems to be the following:
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> ...
> static struct acpi_driver asus_hotk_driver = {
>         .name = ACPI_HOTK_NAME,
>         .class = ACPI_HOTK_CLASS,
>         .ids = ACPI_HOTK_HID,
>         .ops = {
>                 .add = asus_hotk_add,
>                 .remove = asus_hotk_remove,
>                 },
> };
> ...
> static int __init asus_hotk_add(struct acpi_device *device)
> ...
> 
Correct.
What I wanted was modpost to tell that the symbol being referenced in
the .data section was 'asus_hotk_add' and not just an offset after
asus_hotk_driver.

What is needed is a link from the RELOCATION RECORD to the symbol table.


	Sam
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