From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@sysprog.at>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lots of "error: multiple storage classes" warnings on the Linux kernel
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:26:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819192656.GA19303@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282222392.10440.60.camel@thorin>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:53:12PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> 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?
Can you cook up a small code snippet that
exhibit this without all the kernel macros etc?
This would make it easier for the sparse folks to understand.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 19:26 UTC|newest]
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2010-08-19 12:53 Lots of "error: multiple storage classes" warnings on the Linux kernel Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 19:26 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2010-08-20 8:37 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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