Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] checkpatch: fix false EXPORT_SYMBOL warning
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:46 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> In theory the thing we are exporting can be an arbitrary number of lines
> prior to the EXPORT_SYMBOL statement.  We actually want to look at the
> statement before the EXPORT_*. 

Why not maintain a variable that holds the name of the function of
structure that is currently getting parsed .. So that you wouldn't need
to look back X lines to find anything ? Or did you do that in the
0.29-5-* version?

Daniel

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