From: Andrew Morton WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable #94: FILE: kernel/user.c:27: +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns); total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 93 lines checked Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/user.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/user.c~cleanup-the-code-managed-with-the-user_ns-option-checkpatch-fixes kernel/user.c --- a/kernel/user.c~cleanup-the-code-managed-with-the-user_ns-option-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/kernel/user.c @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ struct user_namespace init_user_ns = { }, .root_user = &root_user, }; - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns); /* _