Re: scsi-next fail to be compiled

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>]

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:54 +0530, Vikas Chaudhary wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:22 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:45 -0700, Ravi Anand wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 2010-07-27 James Bottomley wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 11:56 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>> LD      drivers/scsi/built-in.o
> >>> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/built-in.o: In function `qla82xx_idc_unlock':
> >>> (.text+0x8814): multiple definition of `qla82xx_idc_unlock'
> >>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/built-in.o:(.text+0x2ea14): first defined here
> >>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/built-in.o:(.text+0x30c56): first defined here
> >>> make[1]: *** [drivers/scsi/built-in.o] Error 1
> >>> make: *** [drivers/scsi/] Error 2
> >>
> >>> This is because exactly the same functions appear in the qla2xxx/  
> >>> and
> >>> qla4xxx/ directories
> >>
> >>> Qlogic people, please get this sorted out now, otherwise I'll drop  
> >>> the
> >>> qla4xxx update before sending to Linus
> >>
> >> We will try to resolve this ASAP.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >>  When are you planning to send it to Linus ?
> >
> > Whenever he opens the merge window ... he's been making noises like it
> > will be this week.
> >
> >>> The best option would be to separate out the 82xx functions so  
> >>> that both
> >>> 2xxx and 4xxx can use them.  In the interim, you could add a
> >>> discriminator prefix.
> >>
> >> We will put in discriminator prefix and  repost the patches.
> >
> > Just the one patch that adds the 82xx support, if possible ... that  
> > way
> > I can just swap the bad one out.
> 
> I am sending new 82xx support patch in next mail which address this  
> issue.
> We added new discriminator prefix "qla4_8xxx_*" for qla4xxx drive  
> module.
> 
> Please swap new 82xx patch with earlier patch.

OK, I've done the patch swap and it all seems to be working now.

Thanks,

James