linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] checkpatch: fix false EXPORT

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Message-Id: <1254407291.18167.98.camel@desktop>
Date:	Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:28:11 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] checkpatch: fix false EXPORT_SYMBOL warning

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:46 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> In theory the thing we are exporting can be an arbitrary number of lines
> prior to the EXPORT_SYMBOL statement.  We actually want to look at the
> statement before the EXPORT_*. 

Why not maintain a variable that holds the name of the function of
structure that is currently getting parsed .. So that you wouldn't need
to look back X lines to find anything ? Or did you do that in the
0.29-5-* version?

Daniel

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