Re: Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac2

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:39:09PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
>...
> Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac1
>...
> +	IDE Raid support for AMI/SI 'Medley' IDE Raid	(Arjan van de Ven)
>...

This causes a compile error if both pdcraid.o and silraid.o are compiled 
statically into the kernel:

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...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.20-ac/include 
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing 
-fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6  -I../ 
-nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=pdcraid  -c -o 
pdcraid.o pdcraid.c
...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.20-ac/include 
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing 
-fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6  -I../ 
-nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=silraid  -c -o 
silraid.o silraid.c
rm -f idedriver-raid.o
ld -m elf_i386  -r -o idedriver-raid.o ataraid.o pdcraid.o hptraid.o 
silraid.o
silraid.o(.text+0x31c): In function `partition_map_normal':
: multiple definition of `partition_map_normal'
pdcraid.o(.text+0x31c): first defined here
make[4]: *** [idedriver-raid.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.20-ac/drivers/ide/raid'

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cu
Adrian

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