It turns out that const and __{dev}initdata cannot be mixed currently
and that generic IDE PCI host driver is also affected by the same issue:
On Thursday 25 October 2007, 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
[ Also reported by Martijn Uffing <
[email protected]>. ]
This patch workarounds the problem in a bit hackish way but without
removing const from generic_chipsets[] (it adds const to __setup() so
__setup_str_ide_generic_all becomes const).
Now all __{dev}initdata data in generic IDE PCI host driver are read-only
so it builds again (driver's .init.data section gets marked as READONLY).
Cc: Martijn Uffing <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
printk(KERN_INFO "IDE generic will claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.\n");
return 1;
}
-__setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on);
+const __setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on);
#endif
module_param_named(all_generic_ide, ide_generic_all, bool, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(all_generic_ide, "IDE generic will claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.");