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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:17:21 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING patches for .39
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:04:48 -0700 Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:55:38PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:02:12 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:52:39PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:34:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > > > > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The one with inifinite errors was vt6655.
> > > > > 
> > > > > vt6656 had same/similar issues. In fact, maybe it's simply because I
> > > > > built both of them in, and get infinite "multiple definitions" because
> > > > > they are the same driver with small differences?
> > > > 
> > > > Ah, probably, if they are both built into the kernel that might happen
> > > > due to the global symbols in them.  Actually that's odd, Randy's usual
> > > > 'randconfig' tester usually catches these, I'll make the Kconfig files
> > > > force them to be modules to keep this from happening in the future.
> > > 
> > > Yes, that looks like the problem, as building them as modules in your
> > > tree right now works just fine.
> > > 
> > > This patch below should solve your build issue, let me know if it
> > > doesn't.
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch.  You had suggested 1-2 months ago that someone do
> > this, so I was waiting to see if someone would actually do it.
> 
> Ah, sorry about that, I forgot about it.
> 
> > I was hoping that a staging developer would do it (not the staging
> > maintainer).
> 
> Heh, well, these drivers are just "placeholders" as the "real" in-kernel
> drivers are being developed for this hardware, so I don't expect to see
> much, if any development happening on them.

oh well, rm -rf them then.

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~Randy
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