Re: [PATCH] libfcoe: Fix section mismatch

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Jun 06 2012 - 15:58:37 EST


On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:59:48AM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> From: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Recent changes to add fcoe_sysfs caused libfcoe_init to call fcoe_transport_exit
> in a module initialization routine. The change resulted in the below error. This
> patch removes the __exit keyword from the fcoe_transport_exit definition such
> that it may be called from an __init routine.
>
> WARNING: drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.o(.init.text+0x21): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_module() to the function .exit.text:fcoe_transp
> exit()
> The function __init init_module() references
> a function __exit fcoe_transport_exit().
> This is often seen when error handling in the init function
> uses functionality in the exit path.
> The fix is often to remove the __exit annotation of
> fcoe_transport_exit() so it may be used outside an exit section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sam
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