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Re: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable

From Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable
Date 2015-10-09 07:40 +0200
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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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[PATCH] UBI: rename free variable Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> - 2015-10-09 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-10-09 06:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> - 2015-10-09 06:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-10-09 07:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] UBI: rename free variable Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> - 2015-10-09 08:30 +0200

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