Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING pull for .40

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> 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",

Ugh, I keep only testing 'allmodconfig' with all staging drivers, I'll
add this to my test build setup from now on.

> 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.

Both probably.  I'll fix this up for the next set of staging fixes after
you release -rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h
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