RE: [LKML] Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.6

From: Marc Gauthier
Date: Tue Oct 02 2012 - 17:57:21 EST


Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> xtensa-allmodconfig (hmm, this is not a new one, it felt through the
> cracks in -rc7 because of log line interleaving).
>
> Ugh, arch/xtensa/include/asm/regs.h defines way to generic symbols,
> like "MISC" (which causes the above breakage), and even a few
> 2-letter symbols, which surprisingly don't cause conflicts...

This particular one is already fixed in the xtensa linux-next tree
at git://github.com/czankel/xtensa-linux.git#for_next
(commit 36c74c2a16678e9ee6f08ef89eeebfdd1a96693d).

The short names in that header are for historical reasons.
It is indeed due for a cleanup.

-Marc
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