any reason for the "EXPORT_SYMBOL" stuff to be in module.h?

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  it occurred to me as i was perusing some of the source files that
some of those files were including module.h for no other reason than
to have access to the EXPORT_* macros.  but why are those macros in
module.h?

  they're not tied specifically to modules.  for example, the file
kernel/mutex.c can't possibly be selected to be a module, and yet it
has to include that header file.

  wouldn't it make more sense to have the EXPORT and symbol stuff in,
perhaps, kernel.h?  or some other, lower-level header file that would
remove the need for including module.h in a file that has absolutely
nothing to do with modules?

rday

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