On Sünndag 07 August 2005 20:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Oh, I'm being an idiot and looking at the wrong tree. It's __deprecated,
> but I still can't think of a clean way to locally undefine that for
> just EXPORT_SYMBOL.
We could in theory create a new EXPORT_SYMBOL variant that does not
reference the symbol directly. This does a little less compile-time
checks but helps reduce the noise. The big advantage of this
would be that we could once again build kernels with -Werror on
developer machines.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -182,21 +182,26 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbo
#endif
/* For every exported symbol, place a struct in the __ksymtab section */
-#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
- __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
- static const char __kstrtab_##sym[] \
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(name, sym, sec) \
+ __CRC_SYMBOL(name, sec) \
+ static const char __kstrtab_##name[] \
__attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"))) \
- = MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \
- static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
+ = MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #name; \
+ static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##name \
__attribute_used__ \
__attribute__((section("__ksymtab" sec), unused)) \
- = { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }
+ = { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##name }
#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) \
- __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sym, "")
#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) \
- __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sym, "_gpl")
+
+#define EXPORT_DEPRECATED_SYMBOL(sym) \
+ extern void __deprecated_ ## sym \
+ __attribute__((alias(#sym))); \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, __deprecated_ ## sym, "_gpl")
#endif
-
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