Author: Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@lip6.fr> Export of symbols statement must be placed right after the definition to meet kernel coding style guidelines. This issue was reported by checkpatch. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/): // @ r @ identifier f; @@ – EXPORT_SYMBOL(f); @@ identifier r.f; @@ …