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Message-ID: <db7639785c8048ed966aca6908516797@EXCHCS32.ornl.gov>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:44:48 +0000
From:	"Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@...l.gov>
To:	"'Drokin, Oleg'" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
CC:	"<devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: RE: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: export cfs_str2mask

>> We need cfs_str2mask exported for our server code.
>> Even with the server code not available upstream
>> it would be nice to use the upstream code on Lustre
>> servers.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
>> ---
>> .../staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c   |    1 +
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c
>> index d40be53..05630f8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c
>> @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ int cfs_str2mask(const char *str, const char *(*bit2str)(int bit),
>> 	*oldmask = newmask;
>> 	return 0;
>> }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_str2mask);
>
>If this is the case of it being used out of tree, I suspect a comment here to that effect would be
>useful, otherwise next person running a script to eliminate unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs would kill it again.

I will send another patch with comments not to remove the new code.
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