Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions

[yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>]

> On Jul 29, 2015, at 18:34, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue
>>> being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message
>>> that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that
>>> happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the
>>> service partition is back again.
>>> 
>>> The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we
>>> get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume
>>> it when the problem clears.
>>> 
>>> We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
>>> from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
>> 
>> Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as
>> they are received.   I presently have
>> 
>> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>> 
>> 
>> I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler
>> for the various trees.
> 
i am curious why not make some tiny functions to be inline ?
so that don’t need EXPORT_SYMOBLS , shrink the kernel size.
Thanks