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

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:38:32 +0200

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 07:15:42AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 03:04:40PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > After merging the staging tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > allyesconfig - I presume that an x86_64 allyesconfig will fail the
> > same way) failed like this:
> > 
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.o: In function `.rtw_get_oper_ch':
> > (.text+0x9d0): multiple definition of `.rtw_get_oper_ch'
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_wlan_util.o:(.text+0x9a0): first defined here
> > 
> > and many, many more ...
> > 
> > Presumably caused by commit
> > 
> >   554c0a3abf21 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver")
> > 
> > I guess this driver was copied from drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/ at some
> > point and modified (or they have the same ancestor) since they share a
> > large number of global symbols.
> > 
> > I have applied the following patch for today:
> > 
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:53:55 +1000
> > Subject: [PATCH] staging: disable the rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver for now
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig
> > index 71450eee3b28..04706d3148d6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> >  config RTL8723BS
> >  	tristate "Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO Wireless LAN NIC driver"
> >  	depends on WLAN && MMC && CFG80211
> > +	depends on BROKEN
> >  	select WIRELESS_EXT
> >  	select WEXT_PRIV
> >  	---help---
> 
> Yes, thanks, we are going to force this to be built as a module which
> should resolve the issues...

I should have this fixed now, sorry for taking so long.

greg k-h