Re: [RFC/PATCH] Export force_sig_info

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:36:52 +1100 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> wrote:

> This change allows force_sig_info to be called from modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
> 
> --
> 
> Any objections to exporting this symbol? I'm  planning to move some
> SPU fault-handling code from the kernel to the spufs.ko object.
> 
> ---
> 
>  kernel/signal.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-spufs/kernel/signal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-spufs.orig/kernel/signal.c
> +++ linux-2.6-spufs/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ force_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(force_sig_info);
>  
>  void
>  force_sig_specific(int sig, struct task_struct *t)

Perhaps export it from within a powerpc-specific C file (along with
suitable comment) to prevent people from generally relying upon the export?