Re: drivers/base/core.c broken for non-CONFIG_HOTPLUG

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 00:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:01:06 +0200 Robert Schwebel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > You add and use
> > 
> > 	extern const char *kobject_actions[];
> 
> Added it in a .c file, too.  Even checkpatch.pl knows that
> was wrong.

The kernel is doing that all over the place for global symbols that are
not meant to be used out of a "private" context or where a "private"
header file of a subsystem doesn't exist.

I can change that, if this isn't the way to do it?

Thanks,
Kay

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