From: Sam Ravnborg Fix following warnings: WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x5b8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_ite887x_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x5e0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x608): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x658): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x680): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x6a8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x6d0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x6f8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x720): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() WARNING: drivers/serial/built-in.o(.data+0x748): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:sbs_exit() pci_serial_quirks contains a number of function pointers where the referenced function is annotated __devexit. This is OK so we annotate pci_serial_quirks with __refdata to ignore the __devexit references Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/serial/8250_pci.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/serial/8250_pci.c~serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci drivers/serial/8250_pci.c --- a/drivers/serial/8250_pci.c~serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci +++ a/drivers/serial/8250_pci.c @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ pci_default_setup(struct serial_private * This list is ordered alphabetically by vendor then device. * Specific entries must come before more generic entries. */ -static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] = { +static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] __refdata = { /* * ADDI-DATA GmbH communication cards */ _