From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Petrovitsch Subject: Lots of "error: multiple storage classes" warnings on the Linux kernel Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:53:12 +0200 Message-ID: <1282222392.10440.60.camel@thorin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from esgaroth.petrovitsch.at ([78.47.184.11]:2335 "EHLO esgaroth.petrovitsch.priv.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752886Ab0HSMxO (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:53:14 -0400 Received: from [172.16.0.10] (chello062178036229.13.11.wu-wien.teleweb.at [62.178.36.229]) (authenticated bits=0) by esgaroth.petrovitsch.priv.at (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o7JCrCHE013960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:53:13 +0200 Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org Hi all! While investigating something completely different, I noticed lots of "error: multiple storage classes" warnings, e.g. ---- snip ---- CHECK security/keys/keyring.c include/linux/sched.h:831:12: error: multiple storage classes: extern weak security/keys/keyring.c:75:1: error: multiple storage classes: extern weak security/keys/keyring.c:471:1: error: multiple storage classes: extern weak security/keys/keyring.c:899:1: error: multiple storage classes: extern weak security/keys/keyring.c:974:1: error: multiple storage classes: extern weak security/keys/keyring.c:1033:1: error: multiple storage classes: extern weak ---- snip ---- [ The ": extern weak" is from me to see which are actually set. ] Is this warning correct that way (and the source should be fixed) or is the warning in that wrong? Bernd -- mobile: +43 664 4416156 http://www.sysprog.at/ Linux Software Development, Consulting and Services