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    module.h: split out the EXPORT_SYMBOL into export.h · f5016932
    Paul Gortmaker authored
    A lot of files pull in module.h when all they are really
    looking for is the basic EXPORT_SYMBOL functionality. The
    recent data from Ingo[1] shows that this is one of several
    instances that has a significant impact on compile times,
    and it should be targeted for factoring out (as done here).
    
    Note that several commonly used header files in include/*
    directly include <linux/module.h> themselves (some 34 of them!)
    The most commonly used ones of these will have to be made
    independent of module.h before the full benefit of this change
    can be realized.
    
    We also transition THIS_MODULE from module.h to export.h,
    since there are lots of files with subsystem structs that
    in turn will have a struct module *owner and only be doing:
    
    	.owner = THIS_MODULE;
    
    and absolutely nothing else modular. So, we also want to have
    the THIS_MODULE definition present in the lightweight header.
    
    [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/76
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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