Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:17:39 +0100 | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the vfs tree |
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On Tuesday 10 March 2020 09:59:18 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > After merging the vfs tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) > produced this warning: > > warning: same module names found: > fs/exfat/exfat.ko > drivers/staging/exfat/exfat.ko > > Introduced by commit > > b9d1e2e6265f ("exfat: add Kconfig and Makefile") > > and not fixed by commit > > 1a3c0509ce83 ("staging: exfat: make staging/exfat and fs/exfat mutually exclusive")
Hello Stephen!
exfat.ko from fs/exfat subdirectory is a rewrite/cleanup of staging exfat driver. It means that fs/exfat replaces staging/exfat and so after fs/exfat is merged, the old staging/exfat code is not needed anymore.
Therefore I think that instead of hacking Kconfig/Makefile files to define mutually exclusivity, it is better to remove staging/exfat code.
Removal of old staging code should be easy and should fix this problem.
Any objections? Or other ideas?
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