Subject: Re: Section msimatch warnings

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:27:24 -0700 (PDT)

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:04:27 +1100

> This is actually different - it is generated by the compiler.  I am not
> sure why we only get them on PowerPC.

I think it has to do with how function descriptors work on powerpc.

Code references to static (local) things work different from how
global scope references work.