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Subject: COMMON symbol warnings
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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After my compile run with __CHECK_ENDIAN__ the modules were built and I
got:

WARNING: "iwl_param_debug" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl3945] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "iwl_param_disable_hw_scan" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl3945] is COMM=
ON symbol
WARNING: "iwl_param_hwcrypto" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl3945] is COMMON symb=
ol
WARNING: "iwl_param_antenna" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl3945] is COMMON symbo=
l
WARNING: "iwl_param_disable" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl3945] is COMMON symbo=
l
WARNING: "iwl_param_debug" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "iwl_param_disable_hw_scan" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965] is COMM=
ON symbol
WARNING: "iwl_param_hwcrypto" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965] is COMMON symb=
ol
WARNING: "iwl_param_antenna" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965] is COMMON symbo=
l
WARNING: "iwl_param_disable" [drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965] is COMMON symbo=
l
WARNING: "zd_workqueue" [drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw-mac80211/zd1211rw-ma=
c80211] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "zd_workqueue" [drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw] is COMMON =
symbol

any idea what that means? It's from scripts/mod/modpost.c:
        switch (sym->st_shndx) {
        case SHN_COMMON:
                warn("\"%s\" [%s] is COMMON symbol\n", symname, mod->name);
                break;

johannes

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