Commit b28242e7 authored May 29, 2007 by Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section



.note* sections are ELF notes, which are typically used by external
tools to examine the kernel image.  Since this is removed from any
runtime consideration, it's OK to reference any section from a .note*
section.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

parent 1de564bb

scripts/mod/modpost.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
		".debug",
		".parainstructions",
		".rodata",
		".note", /* ignore ELF notes - may contain anything */
		NULL
		};
		/* part of section name */
		@@ -1228,6 +1229,7 @@ static int exit_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
		/* Start of section names */
		const char *namelist2[] = {
		".debug",
		".note", /* ignore ELF notes - may contain anything */
		NULL
		};
		/* part of section name */