Re: [PATCH-next] init/main.c: make local symbol static

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:33:27 -0500
Christopher DÃaz Riveros <chrisadr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > What about the other user(s) of envp_init?  
> > 
> > It looks like it's referenced in init/do_mounts_initrd.c.  Rather
> > than making it static, it should be declared in .h file.
> >   
> 
> Ok, I'll try to figure it out, akpm accepted the patch in mm-next but
> was dropped because of testing failures. I'm still very new to all of
> this process.

Yeah, because do_mounts_initrd.c didn't compile. If you do add it to a
header, use a header local in the init directory. Do not expose
envp_init to the entire kernel.

-- Steve