Re: [PATCH] [IrDA] Fix IrDA build failure

From: Samuel Ortiz <redacted>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:17:15 +0300

When having built-in IrDA, we hit the following error:

`irda_sysctl_unregister' referenced in section `.init.text' of
net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
net/built-in.o
`irda_proc_unregister' referenced in section `.init.text' of
net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
net/built-in.o
`irsock_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`irttp_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`iriap_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`irda_device_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of
net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
net/built-in.o
`irlap_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`irlmp_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make: *** [_all] Error 2

This is due to the irda_init fix recently added, where we call __exit
routines from an __init one. It is a build failure that I didn't catch
because it doesn't show up when building IrDA as a module. My apologies
for that.
The following patch fixes that failure and is against your net-2.6
tree. I hope it can make it to the merge window, and stable-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
is CCed on this mail.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <redacted>

I've applied this.

I realize that alternative suggestions have been made on
how to fix this, and when consensus on that is reached someone
can send me a follow-on patch.

Thanks!

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