Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 17:51:01 EST


On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:36:28AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > John Levon sez:
> > > Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev());
> > > are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c?
> >
> > I think we are, yes. ksyms.c just makes life harder.
>
> OK, here is a version that evacutates all of fs/char_dev.c's functions out
> of ksyms.c. And that, probably, is about all the bandwidth this little
> patch is worth...
>
> jon
>
> diff -urN -X dontdiff test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c test5/fs/char_dev.c
> --- test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c Mon Sep 8 13:50:01 2003
> +++ test5/fs/char_dev.c Wed Sep 17 10:45:46 2003

Need to modify export-objs line in fs/Makefile too.

Jeff



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