Re: [PATCH] Input: parkbd - Drop bogus __init from parkbd_allocate_serio()

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Nov 09 2015 - 12:27:27 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Sudip,
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:53:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1056606): Section mismatch in reference from the function parkbd_attach() to the function .init.text:parkbd_allocate_serio()
> >> The function parkbd_attach() references
> >> the function __init parkbd_allocate_serio().
> >> This is often because parkbd_attach lacks a __init
> >> annotation or the annotation of parkbd_allocate_serio is wrong.
> >>
> >> Commit 33ca8ab97cbb676d ("Input: parkbd - use parallel port device
> >> model") dropped the __init attribute from the sole caller of
> >> parkbd_allocate_serio(), but forgot to remove it from
> >> parkbd_allocate_serio() itself.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 33ca8ab97cbb676d ("Input: parkbd - use parallel port device model")
> >> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I don't see this with allmodconfig on i386 or on x86_64. How did you get
> > this warning? But anyway, looking at the code, i did miss attribute.
>
> It depends on your compiler version. If your compiler decides to inline
> parkbd_allocate_serio(), you won't see that warning.
>
> > Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

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Dmitry
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