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parport: amiga: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch

As described in the added code comment, a reference to .exit.text is ok
for drivers registered via module_platform_driver_probe(). Make this
explicit to prevent the following section mismatch warning

WARNING: modpost: drivers/parport/parport_amiga: section mismatch in reference: amiga_parallel_driver+0x8 (section: .data) -> amiga_parallel_remove (section: .exit.text)

that triggers on an allmodconfig W=1 build.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513075206.2337310-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Uwe Kleine-König and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c
··· 229 229 parport_put_port(port); 230 230 } 231 231 232 - static struct platform_driver amiga_parallel_driver = { 232 + /* 233 + * amiga_parallel_remove() lives in .exit.text. For drivers registered via 234 + * module_platform_driver_probe() this is ok because they cannot get unbound at 235 + * runtime. So mark the driver struct with __refdata to prevent modpost 236 + * triggering a section mismatch warning. 237 + */ 238 + static struct platform_driver amiga_parallel_driver __refdata = { 233 239 .remove_new = __exit_p(amiga_parallel_remove), 234 240 .driver = { 235 241 .name = "amiga-parallel",