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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: "R.M. Thomas" <rmthomas@sciolus.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] staging/easycap: make module params private/static, fix build
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:18:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDC6BA4.3060307@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDC67FF.3010006@sciolus.org>

On 11/11/10 14:02, R.M. Thomas wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> The easycap driver has module parameters (bars, gain, & debug)
>> with global scope that intrude on the kernel namespace and cause
>> build problems.  Change the names of them to be driver-specific
>> and make 2 of them static.
> 
> I did do test builds of the driver in-tree prior to submitting the
> recent set of patches, but did not see any warnings so did not spot
> this mistake.  There's presumably something wrong with the way I'm
> building the kernel.

This build problem shows up when this driver is built into the kernel
image, not built as a loadable module.  Did you only build as a loadable
module, maybe?  and what CPU architecture did you build for?  That could
also matter.

-- 
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11  1:56 linux-next: Tree for November 11 Stephen Rothwell
2010-11-11 17:48 ` linux-next: Tree for November 11 (unifdef) Randy Dunlap
2010-11-11 18:26   ` Tony Finch
2010-11-11 18:44 ` [PATCH -next] staging/easycap: make module params private/static, fix build Randy Dunlap
2010-11-11 22:02   ` R.M. Thomas
2010-11-11 22:18     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-11-12 10:30       ` R.M. Thomas
2010-11-12 22:47 ` [PATCH -next] staging: fix ste_rmi4 build, depends on INPUT Randy Dunlap

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