Re: checkpatch.pl false positive on exported pointers

Dan Williams wrote:
> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
> #563: FILE: drivers/scsi/iioc34x/iioc34x_sas.c:58:
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iioc34x_transport_template);
> 
> drivers/scsi/iioc34x/iioc34x_sas.c:57
> struct scsi_transport_template *iioc34x_transport_template;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(iioc34x_transport_template);
> 
> I suspect the script wants:
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(*iioc34x_transport_template);
> ...but that does not compile.

Thanks for the report.  Will look into this for the next update.

-apw
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