Re: [PATCH] staging/android/lowmemorykiller: fix module param errors

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>
> Move module_params to near the end of the source file so that
> their references are already known/defined.  Fixes build errors:
>
> drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c: In function '__check_cost':
> drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c:60: error: 'lowmem_shrinker' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c: At top level:
> drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c:60: error: 'lowmem_shrinker' undeclared here (not in a function)
> drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c:60: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'type name'
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c |   14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20090731.orig/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
> +++ linux-next-20090731/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
> @@ -57,13 +57,6 @@ static int lowmem_minfree_size = 4;
>  			printk(x);			\
>  	} while (0)
>
> -module_param_named(cost, lowmem_shrinker.seeks, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> -module_param_array_named(adj, lowmem_adj, int, &lowmem_adj_size,
> -			 S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> -module_param_array_named(minfree, lowmem_minfree, uint, &lowmem_minfree_size,
> -			 S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> -module_param_named(debug_level, lowmem_debug_level, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> -
>  static int lowmem_shrink(int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  {
>  	struct task_struct *p;
> @@ -166,6 +159,13 @@ static void __exit lowmem_exit(void)
>  	unregister_shrinker(&lowmem_shrinker);
>  }
>
> +module_param_named(cost, lowmem_shrinker.seeks, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param_array_named(adj, lowmem_adj, int, &lowmem_adj_size,
> +			 S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param_array_named(minfree, lowmem_minfree, uint, &lowmem_minfree_size,
> +			 S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param_named(debug_level, lowmem_debug_level, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +
>  module_init(lowmem_init);
>  module_exit(lowmem_exit);

  isn't that a bit non-standard?  from what i've seen, the standard
seems to be to define something as a module parameter *immediately*
after its definition, not to collect them all at the bottom of the
source file separate from the definitions.  *is* there a standard for
that?

rday
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