linux-kernel - [patch] sysfs: build fix

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Date:	Sun, 4 May 2008 09:29:43 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [patch] sysfs: build fix


x86.git testing found the following build failure on v2.6.26-rc1:

  In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:22,
                   from include/linux/module.h:17,
                   from include/linux/crypto.h:22,
                   from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:8,
                   from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3:
  include/linux/sysfs.h:201: error: redefinition of 'sysfs_update_group'
  include/linux/sysfs.h:195: error: previous definition of 'sysfs_update_group' was here
  make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
  make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

with the following config:

    http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Sun_May__4_07_09_30_CEST_2008.bad

the reason for the build failure is the duplicate definition of the 
sysfs_update_group() inline function in include/linux/sysfs.h.

The duplication was a merge error: it was added via -mm by commit 
v2.6.25-7262-g2850699, "sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for 
CONFIG_SYSFS=n" a day before v2.6.26-rc1, but a day before that the same 
commit was already merged upstream via the sysfs tree, with commit 
v2.6.25-7211-g1cbfb7a.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 include/linux/sysfs.h |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux/include/linux/sysfs.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ linux/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -196,12 +196,6 @@ static inline int sysfs_update_group(str
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline int sysfs_update_group(struct kobject *kobj,
-				const struct attribute_group *grp)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static inline void sysfs_remove_group(struct kobject *kobj,
 				      const struct attribute_group *grp)
 {
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