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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: COMMON symbol warnings
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:35:01 +0200
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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?