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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/13] switchtec: export class symbol for use in upper
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On 16/06/17 11:11 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?
> 
> And do you really have to move from a dynamic class to a static one?  I
> know it will work just the same, but I hate seeing static structures
> that have reference counts on them :)

I'll change both for v1. I didn't really need a static one. I just saw
an example of some other user of class_interface which and it seemed
appropriate.

Logan