From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] next-20090114 - drivers/staging/meilhaus Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:04:03 -0800 Message-ID: <20090114180403.GA16974@suse.de> References: <20090114165002.3bbe49d7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090114180024.GB4796@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39731 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752091AbZANSLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:11:00 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090114180024.GB4796@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:30:24PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > next-20090114 randconfig build on x86_64 machine fails, > > LD drivers/staging/meilhaus/built-in.o > drivers/staging/meilhaus/me1600.o: In function `cleanup_module': > (.exit.text+0x0): multiple definition of `cleanup_module' > drivers/staging/meilhaus/memain.o:memain.c:(.exit.text+0x0): first defined here Yeah, a lot of these staging drivers can't handle being built into the kernel. At first glance, I don't see a way to prevent this, is there some Kconfig option I can use to say, "this can only be a module or disabled, not build statically"? thanks, greg k-h