Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: re-export lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:16:12PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:52:19AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:47:02AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:27:05PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > > > > Being over zealous in removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs two functions
> > > > > lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md exports were removed. They need to be
> > > > > exported so this patch restores those EXPORT_SYMBOLS. Same mistake
> > > > > was done when porting to the upstream client.
> > > > 
> > > > How did our build testing not catch this?  What needs these exports?  Is
> > > > it any in-kernel code?
> > > > 
> > > > confused,
> > > 
> > > It did catch it...
> > 
> > It did?  Works here for me, and I didn't see an error report anywhere...
> > 
> > > James, every patch has to be buildable (bisectable) so the original
> > > patch is never going to be merged.
> > 
> > What is the "original" patch here?
> > 
> 
> [PATCH 112/124] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: remove unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL
> 
> kbuild responded to the email that it broke compilation on s360 but I
> don't think the breakage is arch specific?

Crap, I thought that was some other kbuild failure, my fault for
ignoring that.

Ok, I'll take half of this patch, if it gets resent...

thanks,

greg k-h
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