On 2/28/18 9:02 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 03/01/2018 05:56 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
>> allmodconfig) produced these warning:
>>
>> In file included from drivers/misc/cardreader/rts5209.c:24:0:
>> include/linux/rtsx_pci.h:40:0: warning: "SG_END" redefined
>> #define SG_END 0x02
>>
>> In file included from include/linux/dmapool.h:14:0,
>> from include/linux/pci.h:1311,
>> from include/linux/rtsx_pci.h:26,
>> from drivers/misc/cardreader/rts5209.c:24:
>> include/linux/scatterlist.h:69:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>> #define SG_END 0x02UL
>>
>> In file included from drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx.h:180:0,
>> from drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx.c:28:
>> drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_chip.h:343:0: warning: "SG_END" redefined
>> #define SG_END 0x02
>>
>> In file included from include/linux/blkdev.h:28:0,
>> from drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx.c:23:
>> include/linux/scatterlist.h:69:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>> #define SG_END 0x02UL
>>
>>
>> and many more the same.
>>
>> Introduced by commit
>>
>> 723fbf563a6a ("lib/scatterlist: Add SG_CHAIN and SG_END macros for LSB encodings")
>
> IIRC this was already detected and hence sent a new version changing
> this to SG_LAST.
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10227897/
The right fix is for drivers to not use defines that end up conflicting
with the global namespace. Should have been fixed up earlier, but I
have applied the patches from Arnd to rectify that.
--
Jens Axboe
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
