On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The semantics of extern inline has changed since gnu89. This means that > folks using GCC versions >= 5.1 may see symbol redefinition errors at > link time for subdirs that override KBUILD_CFLAGS (making the C standard > used implicit) regardless of this patch. This has been cleaned up > earlier in the patch set, but is left as a note in the commit message > for future travelers. I think the keyword you are missing is __attribute__((gnu_inline)) which forces the gnu89 behavior on all compiler versions. It's been supported since gcc-4.2, so it should not cause problems on any compiler that is able to build an x86 kernel. Arnd -- 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