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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: make module name conflict fatal error
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 08:20:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200609062012.GA499862@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200608020256.GA256950@roeck-us.net>

On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 07:02:56PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 01:21:49PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > I think all the warnings have been fixed by now. Make it a fatal error.
> > 
> 
> Not entirely. With this patch in the tree, I get:
> 
> Building sparc64:allmodconfig ... failed
> --------------
> Error log:
> error: the following would cause module name conflict:
>   drivers/char/adi.ko
>   drivers/input/joystick/adi.ko
> make[1]: *** [modules_check] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
> 
> Reverting this patch fixes the problem.

As it doesn't look like either of these drivers can be "auto-loaded"
based on hardware detection, I don't know what to suggest as for
renaming either of them.

Any ideas?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-09  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11  4:21 [PATCH] kbuild: make module name conflict fatal error Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-08  2:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-09  6:20   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-06-09  7:51     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-06-09  7:58       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-09  8:42       ` Masahiro Yamada

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