This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.c: make module parameter variable name unique to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-rapidio-devices-tsi721.c-make-module-parameter-variable-name-unique.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:28:31 CEST 2017 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:12:10 -0700 Subject: drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.c: make module parameter variable name unique From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4785603bd05b0b029c647080937674d9991600f9 ] kbuild test robot reported a non-static variable name collision between a staging driver and a RapidIO driver, with a generic variable name of 'dbg_level'. Both drivers should be changed so that they don't use this generic public variable name. This patch fixes the RapidIO driver but does not change the user interface (name) for the module parameter. drivers/staging/built-in.o:(.bss+0x109d0): multiple definition of `dbg_level' drivers/rapidio/built-in.o:(.bss+0x16c): first defined here Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab527fc5-aa3c-4b07-5d48-eef5de703192@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jérémy Lefaure <jeremy.lefaure@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.c | 4 ++-- drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.c +++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.c @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ #include "tsi721.h" #ifdef DEBUG -u32 dbg_level; -module_param(dbg_level, uint, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO); +u32 tsi_dbg_level; +module_param_named(dbg_level, tsi_dbg_level, uint, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dbg_level, "Debugging output level (default 0 = none)"); #endif --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.h +++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.h @@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ enum { }; #ifdef DEBUG -extern u32 dbg_level; +extern u32 tsi_dbg_level; #define tsi_debug(level, dev, fmt, arg...) \ do { \ - if (DBG_##level & dbg_level) \ + if (DBG_##level & tsi_dbg_level) \ dev_dbg(dev, "%s: " fmt "\n", __func__, ##arg); \ } while (0) #else Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/drivers-rapidio-devices-tsi721.c-make-module-parameter-variable-name-unique.patch