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SubjectRe: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 06:39:52AM +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
> Hello Al,
> Sorry, I should have added this info immediately into the patch ...
>
> We have in U-Boot a compat.h file, in which we collect all things
> we need to make linux code running under U-Boot, and there we map
> kfree() to free(), see:
>
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=include/linux/compat.h;h=fbebf910addd994d265d21c4fbaa0a2f48f4ccb1;hb=996ec1dcc58a34b53891acde0ec5df9141b5fcc2#l58
>
> So, if we use a var name "free", this will conflict ... and I get
> for example when compiling the UBI code:
>
> CC drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.o
> drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.c: In function 'scan_pool':
> drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.c:475:3: error: called object 'free' is not a function
>
> So with this patch, we have less differences to kernel files ...

Umm... wouldn't it be easier to replace that mix of #define and static inline
with uniform use of static inline, rather than playing whack-a-mole like
that?


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