Re: [PATCH] [2.6.17-rc6] Section mismatch in drivers/net/ne.o during modpost

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:38:00 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> --- linux-2617-rc6.orig/drivers/net/ne.c
>> +++ linux-2617-rc6/drivers/net/ne.c
>> @@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ that the ne2k probe is the last 8390 bas
>>  is at boot) and so the probe will get confused by any other 8390 cards.
>>  ISA device autoprobes on a running machine are not recommended anyway. */
>>  
>> -int init_module(void)
>> +int __init init_module(void)
>>  {
>>  	int this_dev, found = 0;
>
>When you anyway touches the driver I suggest to name the function
><module>_init, <module>_cleanup and use module_init(), module_cleanup().

Maybe not: in the ne.c driver init_module() is inside #ifdef MODULE,
so conversion to ne_init() + module_init(ne_init) would be a no-op
except for making the code larger. In the non-MODULE case Space.c
calls ne_probe() directly.

/Mikael
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