linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ia64: rename cache_show to topology_cache

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Message-ID: <20130217013649.GB6775@localhost>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:36:49 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: rename cache_show to topology_cache_show

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 01:18:53PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 15-02-13 14:46:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:38:24 +0100
> > Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > Fenguang Wu has reported the following compile time issue
> > > arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c:278:16: error: conflicting types for 'cache_show'
> > > include/linux/slab.h:224:5: note: previous declaration of 'cache_show' was here
> > > 
> > > which has been introduced by 749c5415 (memcg: aggregate memcg cache
> > > values in slabinfo). Let's rename ia64 local function to prevent from
> > > the name conflict.
> > 
> > Confused.  Tony fixed this ages ago?
> 
> Yes but it was after 3.7 so I didn't have it in my tree and I found out
> only after I sent this email. Sorry about the confusion.

Michal, sorry about the confusions. Does this indicate anything
improveable in the build test/notification?

Thanks,
Fengguang
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