On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 23:53 -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> aha152x.c and fdomain are built twice - once for the isa driver and once
> for the PCMCIA one. Through #ifdefs, the compiled codes are slightly
> different; thus, global symbols need to be given different names depending
> on which flavor is being built. This patch adds GLOBAL() macro to
> aha152x.h and fdomain.h which change the symbol depending on PCMCIA.
>
> This bug has always existed but has been masked by the fact the
> drivers/scsi/pcmcia used subdir-(y|m) instead of obj-(y|m) which made
> drivers/scsi/pcmcia/built_in.o not linked into the kernel and thus avoided
> the duplicate symbols during compilation.
>
> [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: coding-style fixes]
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
An alternative fix for this is already in.
Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 18 17:47:56 2008 -0600
[SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
James
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