Re: [PATCH 1/4] export bus_kset

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu May 12 2011 - 15:28:22 EST


On Thursday, May 12, 2011, Raffaele Recalcati wrote:
> From: Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@xxxxxxxxx>

Please explain why you need to export it, what the alternatives are and
why you think this approach is better than the alternatives.

Thanks,
Rafael


> Signed-off-by: Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/bus.c | 3 ++-
> include/linux/kobject.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
> index 000e7b2..2134248 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
> @@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ static const struct kset_uevent_ops bus_uevent_ops = {
> .filter = bus_uevent_filter,
> };
>
> -static struct kset *bus_kset;
> +struct kset *bus_kset;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bus_kset);
>
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
> diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
> index 8f6d121..456b20d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kobject.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
> @@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ extern struct kobject *power_kobj;
> /* The global /sys/firmware/ kobject for people to chain off of */
> extern struct kobject *firmware_kobj;
>
> +extern struct kset *bus_kset ;
> +
> #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG)
> int kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action);
> int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
>

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