Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 09:55:31 EST


Keith Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:16:22 +0100,
> Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
>
>>... I would like to finish some other minor things there
>>as well. I mean basically the macro games showing that somebody didn't
>>understand C pointer semantics found at places like:
>>
>>#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3
>>extern unsigned int pci_init_ali15x3(struct pci_dev *, const char *);
>>...
>>#define PCI_ALI15X3 &pci_init_ali15x3
>>#else
>>...
>>#define PCI_ALI15X3 NULL
>>#endif
>>
>>This should rather look like:
>>
>>#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3
>>extern unsigned int pci_init_ali15x3(struct pci_dev *);
>>#else
>>#define pci_init_ali15x3 NULL
>>#endif
>>
>
> That will probably break with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS. At the very least it
> will require make mrproper when changing CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 and
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is set to y.

No it won't. The functions above are:

1. Not exported at all to modules.
2. If the will be exported it will happen through a generic
struct of function pointers.

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