Re: iwlwifi: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL for static symbol

From: reinette chatre
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 14:27:24 EST


Andreas,

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:27 -0700, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> reinette chatre
> <reinette.chatre-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 00:58 -0700, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> It does not make sense to apply EXPORT_SYMBOL to a static symbol. Fixes
> >> this build error:
> >>
> >> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c:1697: error: __ksymtab_iwl3945_rx_queue_reset causes a section type conflict
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> This obsoletes 6269b731560d69c5eaa929909891edec39496d71, which was
> >
> >>From which repo is this commit id?
>
> That's from davem/net-2.6 or linville/wireless-2.6.git


Thanks. Even though this patch obsoletes
6269b731560d69c5eaa929909891edec39496d71 it still makes sense to have
that patch in the repo as it removes another unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL.
I would thus prefer that both patches are included.

Reinette

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