Hi Srinivas, [FYI, it's a private test report for your RFC patch.] [auto build test ERROR on linus/master] [also build test ERROR on v5.7-rc4 next-20200505] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Srinivas-Pandruvada/thermal-Add-new-mechanism-to-get-thermal-notification/20200505-135412 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 47cf1b422e6093aee2a3e55d5e162112a2c69870 config: ia64-allnoconfig (attached as .config) compiler: ia64-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # save the attached .config to linux build tree COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day GCC_VERSION=9.3.0 make.cross ARCH=ia64 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kbuild test robot All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): ia64-linux-ld: drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.o: in function `thermal_dev_send_event': >> acpi_processor.c:(.text+0xda0): multiple definition of `thermal_dev_send_event'; arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.o:acpi.c:(.text+0x2e0): first defined here ia64-linux-ld: drivers/acpi/processor_core.o: in function `thermal_dev_send_event': processor_core.c:(.text+0x5a0): multiple definition of `thermal_dev_send_event'; arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.o:acpi.c:(.text+0x2e0): first defined here ia64-linux-ld: drivers/acpi/processor_pdc.o: in function `thermal_dev_send_event': processor_pdc.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `thermal_dev_send_event'; arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.o:acpi.c:(.text+0x2e0): first defined here --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all(a)lists.01.org