Richard> On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 05:53:27PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> I am seing a really strange problem with one of my drivers (the
>> AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet one) when I compile it statically into the
>> kernel using 2.2.0pre4 and gcc-2.7.2.3 as it comes with Red Hat
>> 5.2. When compiled as a module the code seems to be fine.
Richard> The problem is detected and reported by egcs --
Richard> drivers/net/acenic.c: In function `acenic_probe':
Richard> drivers/net/acenic.c:142: acenic_probe causes a section type
Richard> conflict drivers/net/acenic.c: In function `ace_init':
Richard> drivers/net/acenic.c:403: ace_init causes a section type
Richard> conflict drivers/net/acenic.c: In function `ace_copy':
Richard> drivers/net/acenic.c:1505: ace_copy causes a section type
Richard> conflict drivers/net/acenic.c: In function
Richard> `ace_load_firmware': drivers/net/acenic.c:1559:
Richard> ace_load_firmware causes a section type conflict
I actually tried compiling it with egcs but didn't really understand
the error message.
Richard> The bug is in acenic_firmware.h --
Richard> u32 tigonFwText[(MAX_TEXT_LEN/4) + 1] __init = {
Richard> That should be __initdata. Since it is __init, .text.init
Richard> gets marked as being a data section rather than a code
Richard> section, so alignment pads with zeros instead of nops.
Thanks a lot, I would never have figured this one out myself.
Jes
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