Re: [PATCH 3.3.0] kernel:kfifo: export __kfifo_max_r symbol.

[Stefani Seibold]

Locks okay to me.

Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Am Mittwoch, den 11.04.2012, 09:01 +0100 schrieb Srinivas KANDAGATLA:
> From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxx>
> 
> kfifo_avail expands to __kfifo_max_r which is not an exported symbol.
> Any kernel module using kfifo_avail will result in build failures
> because of this.
> This patch just exports __kfifo_max_r symbol to fix such problems in
> future.
> 
> This bug was orignially reported by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> during v4l-dvb tree integration into linux-next.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi All, 
> A bulid failure during v4l-dvb tree integration into linux-next shows that __kfifo_max_r symbol is not exported.
> All the __kifo_* functions declared in kfifo.h are already exported symbols.
> I see no reason why __kfifo_max_r should not be exported too.
> 
> comments?
> 
> --srini
> 
>  kernel/kfifo.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c
> index c744b88..59dcf5b 100644
> --- a/kernel/kfifo.c
> +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c
> @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ unsigned int __kfifo_max_r(unsigned int len, size_t recsize)
>  		return max;
>  	return len;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_max_r);
>  
>  #define	__KFIFO_PEEK(data, out, mask) \
>  	((data)[(out) & (mask)])


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