From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>,
Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extern variables in *.c files
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 19:24:33 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16007.1010046273@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:56:25 -0800." <3C340EA9.FE084B4C@zip.com.au>
On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:56:25 -0800,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
>Yup. Problem is, we have about 1500 instances in the kernel :(
You can ignore the ~250 entries in *syms.c files. EXPORT_SYMBOL only
needs to know if a symbol is a function or anything else, it does not
care about types at all. You can define variables and functions with
invalid types in *syms.c without doing any damage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-03 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-02 18:18 vda
2002-01-02 19:24 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-02 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-02 22:07 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-03 7:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-03 7:42 ` H . J . Lu
2002-01-03 7:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-03 8:24 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-01-03 9:57 ` Russell King
2002-01-04 0:28 ` Extern variables in *.c files (maintainers pls read this) vda
2002-01-03 23:14 ` Olaf Dietsche
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