Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:46:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:12763 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20027296AbXJYVql (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:46:41 +0100 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c10so587888nfd for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:46:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=i3SWtubBdyAODaaKzcCFA1VkGn2KYU46A8nm61M3RYA=; b=iQ4/srVv87qj0hiDeQ16id9hYr6uHuFF8lCRHb9cNDTsxk3d4MaIevV2K+I9h/aeP/I7M3XRsVFs0kjimR7k8DNA1jsMwcLV/b5pJwgkyxUujjDfZccpISU2NYvvPLN1tDOZAoTbz4XWnOgmzWsEkNCl6fs6fTBsJ4rrzsgpeGk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=IEGgyvT1n7+CGo3B6hTYRzItdeyCMLjW8kM8zz5F64ww2o9RAvzHV+XfzFW8UuRk4UXz5Ej59nF5F1vvruLqlVisn2cnjkVXO60kx4lJHzQ0WvmliV0dLXzfRsHBSvHpC0Z5uvWmPEdd6hSwHrxLhumzrLPfNr7xSfCW+m/qO1s= Received: by 10.86.80.5 with SMTP id d5mr1671404fgb.1193348801376; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.123.7? ( [89.78.229.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm5432117muf.2007.10.25.14.46.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:46:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [IDE] Fix build bug Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:52:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Ralf Baechle , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org References: <20071025135334.GA23272@linux-mips.org> <20071025141305.GA11698@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20071025141305.GA11698@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710252352.32141.bzolnier@gmail.com> Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17237 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: bzolnier@gmail.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thursday 25 October 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:53:34PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > CC drivers/ide/pci/generic.o > > drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:52: error: __setup_str_ide_generic_all_on causes a > > +section type conflict > > > > This sort of build error is becoming a regular issue. Either all or non > > of the elements that go into a particular section of a compilation unit > > need to be const. Or an error may result such as in this case if > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset. > So we can avoid this if we invent a __constinitdata tag that uses > a new section? I asked similar question on LKML few days ago together with the list of potentially problematic places: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/594427 Now I see that the list is only partially complete since __initdata and co. may be also hidden in things like __setup() etc. Thanks, Bart