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Message-ID: <56EAF128.8050709@osg.samsung.com> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:02:16 -0300 From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com> To: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 2/2] mfd: max14577: Allow driver to be built as a module Hello Chanwoo On 03/17/2016 01:57 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: [snip] >> > > Sorry again, this error goes away after I clean the build directory so it > does not happen without this patch-set. Now, I found what's the issue and > is that both the max14577 MFD and regulator drivers have the same object > file name so they both end being called max14577.ko. > > This confuses Kbuild and so in the modpost step, the exported symbols by > the MFD driver don't end into Module.symvers. This doesn't happen when > the driver is not a module since symbols come from the vmlinux binary. > > I'll post a patch to rename the regulator driver to max14577-regulator, > this will be necessary anyways to have max14577 as a module since Kbuild > also gets confused and don't copy both modules because have the same name. > Patch is [0], could you please test the patch-series along with that one and provide your Tested-by? I plan to re-send this series once [0] lands. > Best regards, > [0]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8613691/ Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America
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