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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32/stable] CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_init_dns_resolver() header
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:40:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12482.1280871625@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19826.1280811821@neuling.org>

Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> wrote:

> An allmodconfig compile on ppc64 with 2.6.32.17 currently gives this error
> 
> fs/cifs/dns_resolve.h:27: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'cifs_init_dns_resolver'
> 
> This removes the __init from cifs_init_dns_resolver()

That's not really a good idea as the assembler may choose different pieces of
assembly to do variable references and jumps, depending on the section
information.

A better fix is to add:

	#include <linux/module.h>

to the header file.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-03  5:03 [PATCH 2.6.32/stable] CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_exit_dns_resolver() Michael Neuling
2010-08-03  5:03 ` [PATCH 2.6.32/stable] CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_init_dns_resolver() header Michael Neuling
2010-08-03 21:40   ` David Howells [this message]
2010-08-03 22:32     ` [PATCH 2.6.32/stable] CIFS: Fix compile error with __init in cifs_init_dns_resolver() definition Michael Neuling

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