The patch titled genksyms: include extern information in dumps has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is genksyms-include-extern-information-in-dumps.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: genksyms: include extern information in dumps From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> The extern flag currently is not included in type dump files (genksyms --dump-types). Include that flag there for completeness. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c~genksyms-include-extern-information-in-dumps scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c --- a/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c~genksyms-include-extern-information-in-dumps +++ a/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c @@ -545,6 +545,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) } fputs(sym->name, dumpfile); putc(' ', dumpfile); + if (sym->is_extern) + fputs("extern ", dumpfile); print_list(dumpfile, sym->defn); putc('\n', dumpfile); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from agruen@xxxxxxx are genksyms-parser-fix-the-__attribute__-rule.patch genksyms-include-extern-information-in-dumps.patch genksyms-track-symbol-checksum-changes.patch genksyms-allow-to-ignore-symbol-checksum-changes.patch git-unionfs.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html