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Message-ID: <BANLkTimJgZmghcTTtR8ZmU5mWfwG=iSv7g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:01:54 -0600
From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Hu Mingkai-B21284 <B21284@...escale.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: spi_fsl_spi broken when compiled as module by b36ece832512c1a0afa54ff0a56d63492a1caf08
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> > struct mpc8xxx_spi_probe_info *to_of_pinfo(struct fsl_spi_platform_data *pdata)
>> > {
>> > return container_of(pdata, struct mpc8xxx_spi_probe_info, pdata);
>> > }
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(to_of_pinfo);
>>
>> Hmmm,. this is not so good because it exports rather generically named
>> functions out to the global namespace. These functions should be
>> renamed to have an mpc8xxx_spi_ prefix before exporting.
>>
>> Otherwise this patch looks good.
>
> Hmm, yeah it did look like a crappy function name, but I just wanted to
> fix the problem, not try to guess what the author of the code intended.
> Prefixing it makes sense.
Alternately, you can move that function to the common header as a
static inline. It's just a container_of() wrapper after all, so
moving it would probably be better.
g.
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