Re: [kbuild-all] drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c:58:6: error: redefinition of 'brcmf_debugfs_init'

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Thu Feb 16 2017 - 20:45:36 EST


Hi Kalle,

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 03:18:48PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 16-2-2017 11:01, Kalle Valo wrote:
Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 16-2-2017 10:39, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
On 02/16/2017 10:31 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
(Adding linux-wireless)

Arend or RafaÅ, would you be able to look at this build problem? Kbuild
found the build errors below, apparently a very old issue. It just
blames me now because I moved the driver to a new directory :)

It is a very old issue. The thing is that the issue can not really occur
because we have this:

# common flags
subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_BRCMDBG) += -DDEBUG

in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/Makefile. So no clue what
happens in the "kbuild test robot" scenario.

I actually tried to reproduce this with kbuild bot's instructions and
was surprised to see that the build worked ok for me. So the issue is
not that simple.

Hi Kalle,

Here is the old email exchange we had about this [1]. In my opinion this
is a Kbuild issue that needs to be looked into.

Regards,
Arend

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg142122.html

Heh, I had completely forgotten that we had discussed this before :)

Fengguang and the kbuild bot team, do you have any ideas why only the
bot is seeing this?

I guess the root cause is due to the robot's doing partial builds like
these

make drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.o
make drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/

The solution I come about is to climb up to higher level dirs like
make drivers/net/wireless/

which is less likely to have Makefile tricks and still maintain fast
enough build tests.

Thanks,
Fengguang