Make fb_modesetting_disabled() a static-inline function when it is defined in the header file. Avoid the linker error shown below.
ld: drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.o: in function `fb_modesetting_disabled': fbmon.c:(.text+0x1e4): multiple definition of `fb_modesetting_disabled'; drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.o:fbmem.c:(.text+0x1bac): first defined here A bug report is at [1]. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: kernel test robot <l...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> Fixes: 0ba2fa8cbd29 ("fbdev: Add support for the nomodeset kernel parameter") Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> Cc: Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> Cc: linux-fb...@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20221117183214.2473e...@canb.auug.org.au/T/#u # 1 --- include/linux/fb.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h index 3a822e4357b12..ea421724f7338 100644 --- a/include/linux/fb.h +++ b/include/linux/fb.h @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ extern int fb_find_mode(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, #if defined(CONFIG_VIDEO_NOMODESET) bool fb_modesetting_disabled(const char *drvname); #else -bool fb_modesetting_disabled(const char *drvname) +static inline bool fb_modesetting_disabled(const char *drvname) { return false; } -- 2.38.1