Re: [PATCH 3/5] cmdline: declare exported symbols immediately

From: Felipe Contreras
Date: Sat Nov 16 2013 - 15:28:11 EST


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Levente Kurusa <levex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2013-11-16 18:32 keltezÃssel, Felipe Contreras Ãrta:
>> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memparse);
>>
>> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
>>
>> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_options);
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> lib/cmdline.c | 5 ++---
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
>> index 5466333..d4932f7 100644
>> --- a/lib/cmdline.c
>> +++ b/lib/cmdline.c
>> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ int get_option(char **str, int *pint)
>>
>> return 1;
>> }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
>>
>> /**
>> * get_options - Parse a string into a list of integers
>> @@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)
>> ints[0] = i - 1;
>> return (char *)str;
>> }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_options);
>>
>> /**
>> * memparse - parse a string with mem suffixes into a number
>> @@ -152,7 +154,4 @@ unsigned long long memparse(const char *ptr, char **retptr)
>>
>> return ret;
>> }
>> -
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(memparse);
>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_options);
>>
>
> I don't know about this one, but I have seen lots of files where EXPORT_SYMBOLs were
> listed at the end of the file. To avoid misunderstanding, I still think that having the
> exports after the function is more appropriate.

If that was appropriate then checkpatch should be updated to remove
that warning, but presumably it's desirable to have them one next to
the other.

--
Felipe Contreras
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