Re: [PATCH] kobject: Export kobject_rename for pci_hotplug_core

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

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:05:59 +0900 Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:16:06 -0600 Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
> >>
> >> Export kobject_rename() to fix the following link error.  This happens when
> >> pci_hotplug_core driver is compiled as a kernel module.
> >>
> >> ERROR: "kobject_rename" [drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug.ko] undefined!
> >> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> >> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> >> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
> >> Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
> >> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> >> Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
> >> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> >> ---
> >>  lib/kobject.c |    1 +
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> >> index 718e510..dcade05 100644
> >> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> >> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> >> @@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ out:
> >>  
> >>  	return error;
> >>  }
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_rename);
> > 
> > Shouldn't this go straight into 2.6.26?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I think "No", because currently its only required by Alex's "pci slot"
> patches.

In that case the fix should be integrated into the patch which it is
fixing.

Well, it doesn't _have_ to be integrated because in this case it can
precede acpi-pci-slot-detection-driver.patch.  But we might as well
fold it, to keep the commit noise level down.