[lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: re-export lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:52:19AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:47:02AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:27:05PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > > > Being over zealous in removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs two functions
> > > > lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md exports were removed. They need to be
> > > > exported so this patch restores those EXPORT_SYMBOLS. Same mistake
> > > > was done when porting to the upstream client.
> > > 
> > > How did our build testing not catch this?  What needs these exports?  Is
> > > it any in-kernel code?
> > > 
> > > confused,
> > 
> > It did catch it...
> 
> It did?  Works here for me, and I didn't see an error report anywhere...
> 
> > James, every patch has to be buildable (bisectable) so the original
> > patch is never going to be merged.
> 
> What is the "original" patch here?
> 

[PATCH 112/124] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: remove unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL

kbuild responded to the email that it broke compilation on s360 but I
don't think the breakage is arch specific?

regards,
dan carpenter