linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc3 26/29] mdb: export task

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Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:13:57 -0600 (MDT)
From:	jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jason.wessel@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc3 26/29] mdb: export task_curr

>
>> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_curr);
>> >> +#endif
>> >
>> > We usually don't export symbols conditionally, especially in core
>> kernel
>> > code.
>> >
>>
>
> FYI, there's a built-in kernel debugger in the upstream kernel already:
> kernel/kgdb.c - and it does not need that export.

I do not need this export either -- unless mdb runs as a kernel module -
which kdb and kgdb cannot do today ...

Jeff

>
> 	Ingo
>


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