Subject: Re: [Ipw2100-admin] [BUILD FAILURE 04/12] Next April 14 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/built-in.o]

From: reinette chatre <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:59:55 -0700

Hi Subrata,

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:28 -0700, Subrata Modak wrote:
> Observed the following build error:
> ---
> LD      drivers/built-in.o
> drivers/staging/built-in.o: In function `ieee80211_xmit':
> drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c:528: multiple
> definition of `ieee80211_xmit'
> drivers/net/built-in.o:drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_tx.c:256:
> first defined here
> make[1]: *** [drivers/built-in.o] Error 1
> make: *** [drivers] Error 2

Looks like the rtl8187se driver started with a copy of ipw2x00's
library. Errors like this can thus be expected and should be addressed
by rtl8187se as they are the ones who made the copy.

Reinette