Adrian Bunk wrote: : I got the following compile error in 2.5.56: : [...] : sound/built-in.o(.data+0x7b30): multiple definition of `io' : drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x738a0): : ... : ld: Warning: size of symbol `io' changed from 68 to 4 in sound/built-in.o : ... : make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 [...] : The offending files are: : sound/oss/awe_wave.c : drivers/net/wan/cosa.c Just change it to "static". This has been reported before by Arnd Bergmann from the Kernel Janitors Project. However: cosa.c can be built as a module only. Linus, please apply this. From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de> --- trivial-2.5-bk/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c.orig 2003-01-06 14:08:20.000000000 +1100 +++ trivial-2.5-bk/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c 2003-01-06 14:08:20.000000000 +1100 @@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ /* NOTE: DMA is not autoprobed!!! */ static int dma[MAX_CARDS+1] = { 1, 7, 1, 7, 1, 7, 1, 7, 0, }; #else -int io[MAX_CARDS+1] = { 0, }; -int dma[MAX_CARDS+1] = { 0, }; +static int io[MAX_CARDS+1]; +static int dma[MAX_CARDS+1]; #endif /* IRQ can be safely autoprobed */ static int irq[MAX_CARDS+1] = { -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 0, }; -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at {fi.muni.cz - work | yenya.net - private}> | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Czech Linux Homepage: http://www.linux.cz/ | |-- If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw --| |-- them over the end result is bad. --Linus Torvalds to the BBC News --| - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html