Drivers must not reference .meminit* sections, which are discarded
when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n.
The reason for whitelisting "*driver" in the section mismatch check
was to allow drivers to reference symbols annotated as __devinit or
__devexit that existed in the past.
Those annotations were removed by the following commits:
-
54b956b90360 ("Remove __dev* markings from init.h")
-
92e9e6d1f984 ("modpost.c: Stop checking __dev* section mismatches")
Remove the stale whitelist.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
"*_console")))
return 0;
- /* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */
- if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
- match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS)) &&
- match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
- return 0;
-
/*
* symbols in data sections must not refer to .exit.*, but there are
* quite a few offenders, so hide these unless for W=1 builds until