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Denis Efremov 15bfc2348d modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
This patch adds a check to warn about static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
during the modpost. In most of the cases, a static symbol marked for
exporting is an odd combination that should be fixed either by deleting
the exporting mark or by removing the static attribute and adding the
appropriate declaration to headers.

This check could help to detect the following problems:
1. 550113d4e9 ("i2c: add newly exported functions to the header, too")
2. 54638c6eaf ("net: phy: make exported variables non-static")
3. 98ef2046f2 ("mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages")
4. 73df167c81 ("s390/zcrypt: remove the exporting of ap_query_configuration")
5. a57caf8c52 ("sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next")
6. e4e4730698 ("crypto: skcipher - remove the exporting of skcipher_walk_next")
7. 14b4c48bb1 ("gve: Remove the exporting of gve_probe")
8. 9b79ee9773 ("scsi: libsas: remove the exporting of sas_wait_eh")
9. ...

The build time impact is very limited and is almost at the unnoticeable
level (< 1 sec).

Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-08-14 01:10:18 +09:00
arch RISC-V updates for v5.3-rc4 2019-08-10 16:31:47 -07:00
block block, bfq: handle NULL return value by bfq_init_rq() 2019-08-08 07:31:50 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
Documentation RISC-V updates for v5.3-rc4 2019-08-10 16:31:47 -07:00
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net net: dsa: sja1105: Fix memory leak on meta state machine error path 2019-08-06 14:37:02 -07:00
samples treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers again 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
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usr kbuild: enable arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/zcrypt.h for uapi header test 2019-07-23 10:45:46 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.