Re: scsi-next fail to be compiled

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On 07/27/2010 01:56 PM, Ravi Anand wrote:
> 
>>> On Tue, 2010-07-27 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.
> 
> Most likely yes - it will be a single 82xx patch which you can swap out.
> 

so qa2xxx and qa4xxx could be used with 82xx at same time?

Yinghai