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Message-ID: <4BFBE793.5030103@wired-net.gr>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:06:59 +0300
From: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@...ed-net.gr>
To: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...com>
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, wfp5p@...ginia.edu,
devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: vme: vme.c: fixed an EXPORT_SYMBOL warning
On 25/5/2010 17:19, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:09:17PM +0000, nanakos@...ed-net.gr wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@...ed-net.gr>
>>>
>>> Fixed an EXPORT_SYMBOL warning.
>>>
>>>
>> What type of warning? a checkpatch.pl one? a gcc one? a sparse one?
>>
>> Please be more verbose.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@...ed-net.gr>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/staging/vme/vme.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
>>> index 093fbff..a0b63d5 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
>>> @@ -1519,7 +1519,6 @@ struct bus_type vme_bus_type = {
>>> .probe = vme_bus_probe,
>>> .remove = vme_bus_remove,
>>> };
>>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vme_bus_type);
>>>
>>> static int __init vme_init(void)
>>> {
>>> @@ -1530,6 +1529,7 @@ static void __exit vme_exit(void)
>>> {
>>> bus_unregister(&vme_bus_type);
>>> }
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vme_bus_type);
>>>
>>>
>> This does not look correct, why move this away from where the structure
>> is defined?
>>
>>
>>
> It's a checkpatch error:
>
> $ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
> #1522: FILE: staging/vme/vme.c:1522:
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vme_bus_type);
>
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 1539 lines checked
>
>
>
>> confused,
>>
>>
> Yup, confused me as well. :-)
>
> Martyn
>
>
>> greg k-h
>>
>>
>
>
Yes you are right, this is a checkpatch error as well.
Thanks for your time looking the patches.
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