linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Export force_sig

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Message-Id: <20071122234141.087743fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:41:41 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Export force_sig_info

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:36:52 +1100 Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org> wrote:

> This change allows force_sig_info to be called from modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
> 
> --
> 
> Any objections to exporting this symbol? I'm  planning to move some
> SPU fault-handling code from the kernel to the spufs.ko object.
> 
> ---
> 
>  kernel/signal.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-spufs/kernel/signal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-spufs.orig/kernel/signal.c
> +++ linux-2.6-spufs/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ force_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(force_sig_info);
>  
>  void
>  force_sig_specific(int sig, struct task_struct *t)

Perhaps export it from within a powerpc-specific C file (along with
suitable comment) to prevent people from generally relying upon the export?

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