Re: [PATCH] export generic_drop_inode()

[Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:03:59PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I think it is best to default these to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to be on the
> safe side, unless you have the agreement of the authors of the code, in
> which case I beg your pardon.
No problem. I apologize if I stepped on anyone's toes by using EXPORT_SYMBOL
:) Here's a patch using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL instead.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

diff -aur linux-2.6.12-rc6.orig/fs/inode.c linux-2.6.12-rc6/fs/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.12-rc6.orig/fs/inode.c	2005-06-06 08:22:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc6/fs/inode.c	2005-06-11 00:15:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@
  * inode when the usage count drops to zero, and
  * i_nlink is zero.
  */
-static void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
+void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	if (!inode->i_nlink)
 		generic_delete_inode(inode);
@@ -1056,6 +1056,8 @@
 		generic_forget_inode(inode);
 }
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_drop_inode);
+
 /*
  * Called when we're dropping the last reference
  * to an inode. 
diff -aur linux-2.6.12-rc6.orig/include/linux/fs.h linux-2.6.12-rc6/include/linux/fs.h
--- linux-2.6.12-rc6.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2005-06-06 08:22:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc6/include/linux/fs.h	2005-06-10 17:13:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -1411,6 +1411,7 @@
 extern ino_t iunique(struct super_block *, ino_t);
 extern int inode_needs_sync(struct inode *inode);
 extern void generic_delete_inode(struct inode *inode);
+extern void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode);
 
 extern struct inode *ilookup5(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval,
 		int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), void *data);