[GIT PATCH] STAGING pull for .40

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Mon May 23 20:43:13 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> Here is the big pull request for the staging tree for your .40 tree (or
> 2.8.0, whatever you are wanting to rename it to.)

Hmm. Doing my once-a-release "try to compile everything in staging
after pulling from greg by using allyesconfig and also forcing all
staging", I get this:

  drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/built-in.o:(.data+0xba0):
multiple definition of `wl_msg_level'
  drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/built-in.o:(.data+0x1a94): first
defined here

which looks like another case of "can't compile two things both into
the kernel".

Looks like the BRCMSMAC / BRCMFMAC drivers need to be mutually
exclusive. Something like

  depends on m || (BRCMSMAC != y)

for BRCMFMAC?

Or they should just avoid using the same globally visible name.

I dunno.

                                Linus



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