From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Subject: Re: COMMON symbol warnings
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:35:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709081835.02212.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070908130118.GA11648@infradead.org>
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > WARNING: "zd_workqueue" [drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw-mac80211/zd1211rw-mac80211] is COMMON symbol
> > WARNING: "zd_workqueue" [drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw] is COMMON symbol
> >
> > any idea what that means?
>
> Yes. It means a variable is declared in multiple places and the linker
> merges it for you. The fix is to make sure these are declared extern in
> all places but one.
Do you need an own workqueue in zd? Can you use the one mac80211 exports?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-08 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 17:38 COMMON symbol warnings Johannes Berg
2007-09-08 12:59 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-08 13:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-08 16:35 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-09-09 8:50 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-10 11:08 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-10 12:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-10 12:23 ` Johannes Berg
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