Re: [PATCH] staging: ccree: mark debug_regs[] as static

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The global array clashes with an existing symbol of the same name:
>
> drivers/staging/ccree/cc_debugfs.o:(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_regs'
> drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.o:(.data+0x70): first defined here
>
> We should fix both, this one addresses the ccree driver by removing
> the symbol from the global namespace.
>
> Fixes: 9bdd203b4dc8 ("s3cmci: add debugfs support for examining driver and hardware state")
> Fixes: b3ec9a6736f2 ("staging: ccree: staging: ccree: replace sysfs by debugfs interface")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/ccree/cc_debugfs.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/cc_debugfs.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/cc_debugfs.c
> index 7cd33957fdc6..662fa07af832 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/cc_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/cc_debugfs.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct cc_debugfs_ctx {
>   */
>  static struct dentry *cc_debugfs_dir;
>
> -struct debugfs_reg32 debug_regs[] = {
> +static struct debugfs_reg32 debug_regs[] = {
>         CC_DEBUG_REG(HOST_SIGNATURE),
>         CC_DEBUG_REG(HOST_IRR),
>         CC_DEBUG_REG(HOST_POWER_DOWN_EN),
> --
> 2.9.0
>

Thank you Arnd.

I ran into this issue myself via a sparse check (I did not have s3cmci
compiled in) and was sure I sent a fix for it but now I see I did not.

Acked-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gilad

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