Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2010 15:19:32 +0100 | From | Martyn Welch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staging: vme: vme.c: fixed an EXPORT_SYMBOL warning |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:09:17PM +0000, nanakos@wired-net.gr wrote: > >> From: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@wired-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@wired-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 >
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