linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: don't export memory_add_physaddr_to

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Message-ID: <20200709021104.GZ25523@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:11:04 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
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        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: don't export memory_add_physaddr_to_nid in
 arch specific directory

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:06:27AM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> After a general version of __weak memory_add_physaddr_to_nid implemented
> and exported , it is no use exporting twice in arch directory even if
> e,g, ia64/x86 have their specific version.
> 
> This is to suppress the modpost warning:
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: 'memory_add_physaddr_to_nid' exported twice.
> Previous export was in vmlinux

It's bad form to introduce a warning and then send a follow-up patch to
fix the warning.  Just fold this patch into patch 1/6.