Subject: Re: emac/zmii link warnings

From: Sean MacLennan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:45:17 -0500

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:15:41 -0500 Sean MacLennan <[email-masked]> wrote:
>   
>> I keep getting these link(?) warnings:
>>
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x16178): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:emac_of_bus_notify (between 'emac_of_bus_notifier' and 'emac_phy_map_lock')
>>     
>
> emac_of_bus_notify is marked __devinit and is referred to by
> emac_of_bus_notifier (which is not marked thus) (in
> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c).
>   
Adding the __devinit to emacs_of_bus_notifier causes a problem with 
emac_phy_map_lock (a mutex). But removing the __devinit from 
emac_of_bus_notify cleans up that warning. Is the __devinit really 
necessary?

Cheers,
   Sean