Re: [git-pull -tip] x86:perf_counter cleanup

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Peter,
> 
> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 15:43 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > 
> > > +/*
> > > + * Exported because of ACPI idle
> > > + */
> > >  u64 hw_perf_save_disable(void)
> > >  {
> > >  	if (unlikely(!perf_counters_initialized))
> > > @@ -270,9 +272,6 @@ u64 hw_perf_save_disable(void)
> > >  
> > >  	return pmc_ops->save_disable_all();
> > >  }
> > > -/*
> > > - * Exported because of ACPI idle
> > > - */
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hw_perf_save_disable);
> > >  
> > >  static void pmc_intel_restore_all(u64 ctrl)
> > > @@ -301,6 +300,9 @@ static void pmc_amd_restore_all(u64 ctrl)
> > >  	}
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > +/*
> > > + * Exported because of ACPI idle
> > > + */
> > >  void hw_perf_restore(u64 ctrl)
> > >  {
> > >  	if (unlikely(!perf_counters_initialized))
> > > @@ -308,9 +310,6 @@ void hw_perf_restore(u64 ctrl)
> > >  
> > >  	pmc_ops->restore_all(ctrl);
> > >  }
> > > -/*
> > > - * Exported because of ACPI idle
> > > - */
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hw_perf_restore);
> > 
> > Please leave those comments where they are, they do not describe the
> > function, but comment on the export.
> 
> Have you checked this:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jaswinder/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=1ae843834668af3a30484e256fb27dc1a49f59cb
> 
> These leads to warnings:
>  WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
>  WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable

ignore those checkpatch warnings, they are wrong in this case.

> So we have two options:
> 1. which I already shown above
> 2. remove these comments

  3. ignore incorrect warnings

	Ingo
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