kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section

.note* sections are ELF notes, which are typically used by external
tools to examine the kernel image.  Since this is removed from any
runtime consideration, it's OK to reference any section from a .note*
section.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index ece09c55e09e6f4904f6241857f75e3af3e34114..9c35f30d2eda69e5d277318f9a78ee5278b16676 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
                ".debug",
                ".parainstructions",
                ".rodata",
+               ".note",                /* ignore ELF notes - may contain anything */
                NULL
        };
        /* part of section name */
@@ -1228,6 +1229,7 @@ static int exit_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
        /* Start of section names */
        const char *namelist2[] = {
                ".debug",
+               ".note",                /* ignore ELF notes - may contain anything */
                NULL
        };
        /* part of section name */