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DateSat, 23 Feb 2002 15:55:31 +0100
FromMartin Dalecki <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9
Keith Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:16:22 +0100, 
> Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
> 
>>... I would like to finish some other minor things there
>>as well. I mean basically the macro games showing that somebody didn't
>>understand C pointer semantics found at places like:
>>
>>#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3
>>extern unsigned int pci_init_ali15x3(struct pci_dev *, const char *);
>>...
>>#define PCI_ALI15X3	&pci_init_ali15x3
>>#else
>>...
>>#define PCI_ALI15X3	NULL
>>#endif
>>
>>This should rather look like:
>>
>>#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3
>>extern unsigned int pci_init_ali15x3(struct pci_dev *);
>>#else
>>#define pci_init_ali15x3	NULL
>>#endif
>>
> 
> That will probably break with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.  At the very least it
> will require make mrproper when changing CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 and
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is set to y.

No it won't. The functions above are:

1. Not exported at all to modules.
2. If the will be exported it will happen through a generic
struct of function pointers.


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