linux-kernel - checkpatch: EXPORT_SYMBOL() false positive

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:23:50 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
Subject: checkpatch: EXPORT_SYMBOL() false positive

	Hi Andy,

A patch from Finn causes a false positive in checkpatch:

| WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
| #13: FILE: arch/m68k/mac/config.c:801:
| +EXPORT_SYMBOL(scc_a_pdev);

Test case from the patch:

--- a/arch/m68k/mac/config.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/mac/config.c
@@ -792,6 +792,32 @@ static struct mac_model mac_data_table[] = {
 	}
 };
 
+struct platform_device scc_a_pdev = {
+	.name           = "scc",
+	.id             = 0,
+	.num_resources  = ARRAY_SIZE(scc_a_rsrcs),
+	.resource       = scc_a_rsrcs,
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(scc_a_pdev);
+
 static void __init mac_identify(void)
 {

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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