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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl false positive on exported pointers
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:34:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46ADB08F.3060601@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20707290928r53bf2530ue02c5e1d4f03be46@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Williams wrote:
> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
> #563: FILE: drivers/scsi/iioc34x/iioc34x_sas.c:58:
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iioc34x_transport_template);
> 
> drivers/scsi/iioc34x/iioc34x_sas.c:57
> struct scsi_transport_template *iioc34x_transport_template;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(iioc34x_transport_template);
> 
> I suspect the script wants:
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(*iioc34x_transport_template);
> ...but that does not compile.

Thanks for the report.  Will look into this for the next update.

-apw

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30  9:34 UTC|newest]

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2007-07-29 16:28 checkpatch.pl false positive on exported pointers Dan Williams
2007-07-30  9:34 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]

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