linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch and kernel/sched.c

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Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:37:05 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch and kernel/sched.c


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > > WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
> > > #411: FILE: home/apw/git/linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c:408:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_clock);
> > 
> > yes, this is a legit warning and i fix it every time i see it. (I 
> > cannot fix this one now because mainline does not have an 
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for cpu_clock(), it's added in -mm? But i cannot 
> > find it in mm either. I'll fix it once i find the patch :)
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc8/2.6.23-rc8-mm2/broken-out/make-rcutorture-rng-use-temporal-entropy.patch

ok - i have picked up the sched.c bit for sched-devel.git. (see below)

	Ingo

---------------->
Subject: sched: export cpu_clock()
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

export cpu_clock() - the preferred API instead of sched_clock().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ unsigned long long cpu_clock(int cpu)
 
 	return now;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_clock);
 
 #ifndef prepare_arch_switch
 # define prepare_arch_switch(next)	do { } while (0)
-
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