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Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init
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This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes.  Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:

  LD      vmlinux
  SYSMAP  System.map
  SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
  MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored and Sam Ravnborg committed Jul 17, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -1141,6 +1141,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
const char **s;
/* Absolute section names */
const char *namelist1[] = {
"__dbe_table", /* MIPS generate these */
"__ftr_fixup", /* powerpc cpu feature fixup */
"__fw_ftr_fixup", /* powerpc firmware feature fixup */
"__param",
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