From: Andrew Morton drivers/net/sundance.c:110: error: version causes a section type conflict I don't understand this error. It's referred to from both __init and __devinit code. With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, version[] is placed in .init.data and is referred to from .init.text. Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/net/sundance.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/net/sundance.c~sundance-section-fix drivers/net/sundance.c --- a/drivers/net/sundance.c~sundance-section-fix +++ a/drivers/net/sundance.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static char *media[MAX_UNITS]; #endif /* These identify the driver base version and may not be removed. */ -static char version[] __devinitdata = +static char version[] = KERN_INFO DRV_NAME ".c:v" DRV_VERSION " " DRV_RELDATE " Written by Donald Becker\n" KERN_INFO " http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html\n"; _