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SubjectRe: linux-next: build warning after merge of the vfs tree
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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