Re: spi_fsl_spi broken when compiled as module by b36ece832512c1a0afa54ff0a56d63492a1caf08

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >  struct mpc8xxx_spi_probe_info *to_of_pinfo(struct fsl_spi_platform_data *pdata)
>> >  {
>> >        return container_of(pdata, struct mpc8xxx_spi_probe_info, pdata);
>> >  }
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(to_of_pinfo);
>>
>> Hmmm,. this is not so good because it exports rather generically named
>> functions out to the global namespace.  These functions should be
>> renamed to have an mpc8xxx_spi_ prefix before exporting.
>>
>> Otherwise this patch looks good.
>
> Hmm, yeah it did look like a crappy function name, but I just wanted to
> fix the problem, not try to guess what the author of the code intended.
> Prefixing it makes sense.

Alternately, you can move that function to the common header as a
static inline.  It's just a container_of() wrapper after all, so
moving it would probably be better.

g.
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