> On Jul 29, 2015, at 18:34, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue
>>> being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message
>>> that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that
>>> happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the
>>> service partition is back again.
>>>
>>> The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we
>>> get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume
>>> it when the problem clears.
>>>
>>> We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
>>> from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Kershner <[email protected]>
>>
>> Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as
>> they are received. I presently have
>>
>> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>> Acked-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler
>> for the various trees.
>
i am curious why not make some tiny functions to be inline ?
so that don’t need EXPORT_SYMOBLS , shrink the kernel size.
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