Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:38:48AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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.

Ah sorry, I misunderstood your question.

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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