Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] iSeries: fix section mismatch in iseries_veth

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:32:33 -0500

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x25dca0): Section mismatch in reference from the function .veth_probe() to the function .init.text:.veth_probe_one()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/iseries_veth.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Jeff, can this go in through the powerpc tree?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c b/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c
> index 419861c..58d3bb6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c
> @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops ops = {
>  	.get_link = veth_get_link,
>  };
>  
> -static struct net_device * __init veth_probe_one(int vlan,
> +static struct net_device *veth_probe_one(int vlan,
>  		struct vio_dev *vio_dev)
>  {

it's trivial enough to not matter, and faster to just...  applied
(if you'll pardon the bad grammar)