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Schema linking is widely recognized as a key factor in improving text-to-SQL performance. Supervised fine-tuning approaches enhance SQL generation quality by explicitly fine-tuning schema linking as an extraction task. However, they suffer from two major limitations: (i) The training corpus of small language models restricts their cross-domain generalization ability. (ii) The extraction-based fine-tuning process struggles to capture complex linking patterns. To address these issues, we propose \textbf{GenLink}, a generation-driven schema-linking framework based on multi-model learning. Instead of explicitly extracting schema elements, GenLink enhances linking through a generation-based learning process, effectively capturing implicit schema relationships. By integrating multiple small language models, GenLink improves schema-linking recall rate and ensures robust cross-domain adaptability. Experimental results on the BIRD and Spider benchmarks validate the effectiveness of GenLink, achieving execution accuracies of 67.34\% (BIRD), 89.7\% (Spider development set), and 87.8\% (Spider test set), demonstrating its superiority in handling diverse and complex database schemas.