On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 06:19:06PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Yann, all, > > HISAX_AVM_A1_PCMCIA is declared twice in drivers/isdn/hisax/Kconfig. As > a bool both times, but with different defaults and dependencies. > > As far as I can see, Kconfig simply ignores the second declaration. No - the second declaration wins. This is on purpose so an arch can override some generic symbol. This is used in a lot of places. People often add definitions to all archs rahter than a single generic place :-( > I'll send a patch to the maintainer of the ISDN subsystem, but > couldn't/shouldn't Kconfig complain about the second declaration, > instead of ignoring it? That would let us spot such errors much earlier. HISAX_AVM_A1_PCMCIA should not appear twice in the same file - so please have this fixed. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
