Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions

[corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)]

> How about just exporting them in the files where they are declared?  I
> do not think we want the ksyms.c file to grow anymore.

Hmm, I figured somebody would say something like that...grumble...mutter...
...complain...gripe...moan...new patch appended...

Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev());
are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c?

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net

--- test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c	Mon Sep  8 13:50:01 2003
+++ test5/fs/char_dev.c	Wed Sep 17 10:19:18 2003
@@ -445,3 +445,16 @@
 	kset_register(&kset_dynamic);
 	cdev_map = kobj_map_init(base_probe, &cdev_subsys);
 }
+
+
+/* Let modules do char dev stuff */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_chrdev_region);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_chrdev_region);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_chrdev_region);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_init);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_alloc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_get);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_put);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_del);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_add);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_unmap);