Several symbol patterns used to be whitelisted to allow drivers to refer
to functions annotated with __devinit and __devexit, which have since
been removed.
Commit e1dc1bfe5b ("modpost: remove more symbol patterns from the
section check whitelist") removed most of these patterns but left
'*_probe' after a reported warning in an irqchip driver.
Turns out that was indeed an incorrect reference which has now been
fixed by commit 9b685058ca ("irqchip/qcom-irq-combiner: Fix section
mismatch").
A recently added clocksource driver also relies on this suffix to
suppress another valid warning, and that is being fixed separately. [1]
Note that drivers with valid reasons for suppressing the warnings can
use the __ref macros.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251017054943.7195-1-johan@kernel.org/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020091613.22562-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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