Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc3' into perf/core

Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 112adf8bd47d..07b41951e3fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -16,15 +16,17 @@
 /* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */
 #define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
 
-#ifdef MODULE
 #define ___module_cat(a,b) __mod_ ## a ## b
 #define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
+#ifdef MODULE
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)                                    \
 static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[]                           \
   __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1)))         \
   = __stringify(tag) "=" info
 #else  /* !MODULE */
-#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)
+/* This struct is here for syntactic coherency, it is not used */
+#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)                                    \
+  struct __module_cat(name,__LINE__) {}
 #endif
 #define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type)                                   \
   __MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)