* Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Em Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:23:45 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> escreveu:
>
> >
> > * Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This series also contains several new drivers:
> > >
> > > - new driver for NXP saa7164;
> >
> > -tip testing found that an allyesconfig build buglet found its way into
> > this driver - find the fix below.
> >
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
> > b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
> > index f0dbead..60f3214 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
> > @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > 32 bus
> > */
> >
> > -unsigned int debug;
> > -module_param(debug, int, 0644);
> > +unsigned int saa_debug;
> > +module_param(saa_debug, int, 0644);
>
> Hmm... it is better to use module_param_named(debug, saa_debug, int, 0644), to
> keep presenting the parameter as just "debug" to userspace.
ah, yes, fully agreed - i thought i did that but apparently modified it
in this instance.
> > This is because recent saa7164 changes introduced a global symbol
> > named 'debug'. The x86 platform code already defines a 'debug'
> > symbol. (which is named in a too generic way as well - but it can be
> > used nicely to weed out too generic symbols in drivers ;-
>
> Agreed.
>
> Btw, I suggest to do a similar patch also for x86, to avoid such
> future conflicts.
Actually, Andrew considers it a feature that allows us to filter out too
generic names early on :-)
Ingo
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