Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the staging tree

From: John Whitmore
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 05:04:00 EST


On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 12:06:17PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> After merging the staging tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allyesconfig) produced this warning:
>
> WARNING: drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192u_usb: 'dot11d_init' exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.ko
>
> Introduced by commit
>
> c01f06b7506f ("staging:rtl8192u: Rename Dot11d_Init - Style")
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell

Aragh, sorry my bad, and a newbie mistake. I now know to do more of a
check for exported symbols. If it had occured to me I'd not have touched
it.

I'm not sure what the procedure is, having written my first bug, but I'll
submit a patch to revert that change.

jwhitmore