linux-kernel - Re: amba-pl08x and 'get_signal' namespace collision/build error

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:49:57 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@....com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: amba-pl08x and 'get_signal' namespace collision/build error

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jonathan Austin
<jonathan.austin@....com> wrote:

> There's a patch making its way to mainline via Russell's tree
> (8d96250700: ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems)
> that breaks the build of the amba-pl08x driver (drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c)
> because the 'get_signal' macro from include/linux/signal.h is now in the
> driver's scope and it clobbers a (previously) valid function call.

This is already fixed by Mark Brown in the DMA tree.

Commit subject:
"dmaengine: PL08x: Avoid collisions with get_signal() macro"

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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