On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Doug Ledford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/7/2016 9:58 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> With Linus' tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed >> like this: >> >> drivers/infiniband/sw/built-in.o:(.opd+0x1698): multiple definition of >> `copy_data' >> drivers/infiniband/hw/built-in.o:(.opd+0xe5f8): first defined here >> drivers/infiniband/sw/built-in.o:(.opd+0x1320): multiple definition of >> `rxe_av_from_attr' >> drivers/infiniband/hw/built-in.o:(.opd+0xe280): first defined here > > This looks very suspicious. I think you are picking up two copies of > the rxe code. One from Linus tree and one from probably Leon's tree. > The thing is, the rxe driver is an entirely software RoCE driver. So, > after I picked it up, I moved it from drivers/infiniband/hw to > drivers/infiniband/sw where it more correctly belongs. Leon's tree > doesn't have that move, and since you pull Leon's tree into your -next > process, with the allyesconfig you are trying to build two copies of it > and put them both statically into the kernel, hence all of the double > definitions. Leon needs to drop his copy of the rxe driver and let the > one in Linus' tree be the only one in existence.
Doug, Just to be clear on this point and on my flow. I'm resetting my ->next branches on the same day of your email announcement of acceptance. Thanks
