linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING patches for .39

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:52:39 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING patches for .39

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@...ux-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.

thanks,

greg k-h
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