Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:49:26PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 17:47, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Several warnings are refereces to module parameters - sound/oss/mad16.o
> > as the most visible one. I have not yet figured out if this is a false
> > positive or not. Removing __initdata on the moduleparam variable solves
> > it, but then this may be the wrong approach.
> > 
> 
> It looks like your check does not like when data associated with a module
> parameter is marked __initdata. But I think it is allowed as long as
> module parameter access mode is 0 so we don't create sysfs entry for it. 

It hits only arrays - so I took a look into moduleparam.h.
Looks like an __initdata tag is missing?

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index b5c98c4..e67eafd 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ extern int param_get_invbool(char *buffe
 /* Comma-separated array: *nump is set to number they actually specified. */
 #define module_param_array_named(name, array, type, nump, perm)		\
 	static struct kparam_array __param_arr_##name			\
+	__initdata							\
 	= { ARRAY_SIZE(array), nump, param_set_##type, param_get_##type,\
 	    sizeof(array[0]), array };					\
 	module_param_call(name, param_array_set, param_array_get, 	\


With this change static struct kparam_array __param_arr_##name is placed
in .init.data.
This made the warnings in drivers/input/joystick/db9 disappear.

And with db9 marked __initdata there should be nothing wrong in
using __initdata for __param_arr_##name as I see it.

Rusty - any comments on this?

	Sam
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