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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Mike Lockwood <lockwood@android.com>,
	Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2012-07-10-16-59 uploaded (staging/ccg)
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:16:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120711151644.23016bd8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFDF7BC.6050602@xenotime.net>

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:01:32 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:

> In file included from drivers/staging/ccg/ccg.c:59:0:
> drivers/staging/ccg/../../usb/gadget/f_fs.c:41:0: warning: "pr_vdebug" redefined
> drivers/staging/ccg/../../usb/gadget/u_serial.c:138:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition

<looks at drivers/staging/ccg/ccg.c>

: /*
:  * Kbuild is not very cooperative with respect to linking separately
:  * compiled library objects into one module.  So for now we won't use
:  * separate compilation ... ensuring init/exit sections work to shrink
:  * the runtime footprint, and giving us at least some parts of what
:  * a "gcc --combine ... part1.c part2.c part3.c ... " build would.
:  */
: #include "../../usb/gadget/usbstring.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/config.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/epautoconf.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/composite.c"
: 
: #include "../../usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/u_serial.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/f_acm.c"
: #define USB_ETH_RNDIS y
: #include "../../usb/gadget/f_rndis.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/rndis.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/u_ether.c"
: #include "../../usb/gadget/f_fs.c"

What nonsense is this?

Who wrote that rotten comment?  What does "not very cooperative" mean? 
This alleged lack of cooperation is the central issue, but you couldn't
be bothered actually describing it?  How the heck is anyone else to
understand the problem and suggest fixes?  argh.

It talks about library objects.  Really?  Is there a .a file
involved here, or is that just a thinko?  If there is indeed a .a file
then I'm not surprised there are problems: don't do that.  If instead
we're just talking about a bunch of .o files then I'm rather curious to
know what "not very cooperative" means.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-11 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-11  0:01 mmotm 2012-07-10-16-59 uploaded akpm
2012-07-11  6:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-07-11  7:44   ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-11  7:53     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-07-11  7:59       ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-11  8:08         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-07-11  8:15           ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-11  9:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-07-11  9:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-07-11  9:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-07-11 10:34 ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-11 22:01 ` mmotm 2012-07-10-16-59 uploaded (staging/ccg) Randy Dunlap
2012-07-11 22:16   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-07-11 23:38     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-07-11 23:57       ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-12  9:00     ` Andrzej Pietrasiewicz
2012-07-12 14:46       ` Randy Dunlap
2012-07-12 15:23       ` 'Greg Kroah-Hartman'
2012-07-13 11:42 ` mmotm 2012-07-10-16-59 uploaded S, Venkatraman

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