[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] ocfs2: export ocfs2_kset for online file check
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Dec 29 13:38:44 PST 2015
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:16:16 +0800 Gang He <ghe at suse.com> wrote:
> Export ocfs2_kset object from ocfs2_stackglue kernel module,
> then online file check code will create the related sysfiles
> under ocfs2_kset object.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
> @@ -629,7 +629,8 @@ static struct attribute_group ocfs2_attr_group = {
> .attrs = ocfs2_attrs,
> };
>
> -static struct kset *ocfs2_kset;
> +struct kset *ocfs2_kset;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ocfs2_kset);
The EXPORT_SYMBOL is only needed if this symbol is to be referred to
from a different module. That isn't the case here - everything which
refers to ocfs2_kset is linked into ocfs2.ko, correct?
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