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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] Export force_sig_info
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:36:52 +1100 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> wrote:

> This change allows force_sig_info to be called from modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
>
> --
>
> Any objections to exporting this symbol? I'm planning to move some
> SPU fault-handling code from the kernel to the spufs.ko object.
>
> ---
>
> kernel/signal.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-spufs/kernel/signal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-spufs.orig/kernel/signal.c
> +++ linux-2.6-spufs/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ force_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *
>
> return ret;
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(force_sig_info);
>
> void
> force_sig_specific(int sig, struct task_struct *t)

Perhaps export it from within a powerpc-specific C file (along with
suitable comment) to prevent people from generally relying upon the export?

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