Commit fe5bd82f authored by Andy Shevchenko's avatar Andy Shevchenko
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auxdisplay: linedisp: Move exported symbols to a namespace 

Avoid unnecessary pollution of the global symbol namespace by
moving library functions in to a specific namespace and import
that into the drivers that make use of the functions.

For more info: https://lwn.net/Articles/760045/



Reviewed-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
parent 6134b0be

drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c

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@@ -831,4 +831,5 @@ module_i2c_driver(ht16k33_driver); 


MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Holtek HT16K33 driver");

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

MODULE_IMPORT_NS(LINEDISP);

MODULE_AUTHOR("Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl>");

drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c

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@@ -298,3 +298,4 @@ module_platform_driver(img_ascii_lcd_driver); 
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Imagination Technologies ASCII LCD Display");

MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>");

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

MODULE_IMPORT_NS(LINEDISP);

drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c

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@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ int linedisp_register(struct linedisp *linedisp, struct device *parent, 
	put_device(&linedisp->dev);

	return err;

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(linedisp_register);

EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(linedisp_register, LINEDISP);



/**

 * linedisp_unregister - unregister a character line display
@@ -276,6 +276,6 @@ void linedisp_unregister(struct linedisp *linedisp) 
	del_timer_sync(&linedisp->timer);

	put_device(&linedisp->dev);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(linedisp_unregister);

EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(linedisp_unregister, LINEDISP);



MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");