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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2007-05-24 06:16:13 +0200
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2007-07-16 22:40:22 +0200
commit1abe02fef95366208c264635a886785d18fd38bb (patch)
treed59985ef79587a8773ddc1818e261cd823789a05
parentkbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm (diff)
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kbuild: suppress modpost warnings for references from the .toc section as used by powerpc
We should do better here by effetively "dereferencing" references to the .toc (or the .got2) section, but that is much harder. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 256b3d272e2e..fa33a6b92a9d 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -870,9 +870,12 @@ static void warn_sec_mismatch(const char *modname, const char *fromsec,
return;
/* fromsec whitelist - without a valid 'before'
- * powerpc has a GOT table in .got2 section */
+ * powerpc has a GOT table in .got2 section
+ * and also a .toc section */
if (strcmp(fromsec, ".got2") == 0)
return;
+ if (strcmp(fromsec, ".toc") == 0)
+ return;
if (before && after) {
warn("%s(%s+0x%llx): Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s "