Re: [PATCH] Staging: vme: vme.c: fixed an EXPORT_SYMBOL warning

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 25 2010 - 09:45:36 EST


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:09:17PM +0000, nanakos@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Fixed an EXPORT_SYMBOL warning.

What type of warning? a checkpatch.pl one? a gcc one? a sparse one?

Please be more verbose.

> Signed-off-by: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vme/vme.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> index 093fbff..a0b63d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> @@ -1519,7 +1519,6 @@ struct bus_type vme_bus_type = {
> .probe = vme_bus_probe,
> .remove = vme_bus_remove,
> };
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vme_bus_type);
>
> static int __init vme_init(void)
> {
> @@ -1530,6 +1529,7 @@ static void __exit vme_exit(void)
> {
> bus_unregister(&vme_bus_type);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vme_bus_type);

This does not look correct, why move this away from where the structure
is defined?

confused,

greg k-h
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