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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
To: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>,
	Keping Chen <chenkeping@huawei.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Resend with Ack][PATCH v1] PCI: allow acpiphp to handle PCIe ports without native PCIe hotplug capability
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:05:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAErSpo5dV+ZPRmOBmdmTf1hEPXvqtXyTyNj4m2nDFEkKi5NmGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFAACF8.8040801@huawei.com>

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi Bjorn and Yinghai,
>         What's the policy to export a symbol by EXPORT_SYMBOL()
> or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()? I know the legal difference, but don't
> know when I should mark a symbol as GPL.

>From Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl,

    EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL implies that the function is considered
    an internal implementation issue, and not really an interface.

So I use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL unless I'm willing to support the symbol as
an interface indefinitely.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04  7:44 [Resend with Ack][PATCH v1] PCI: allow acpiphp to handle PCIe ports without native PCIe hotplug capability Jiang Liu
2012-06-04  8:23 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2012-07-03  4:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-03 15:59   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-03 19:50     ` Don Dutile
2012-07-04 18:07       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-09 10:05         ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-09 17:05           ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2012-07-04  2:52     ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] improve PCIe capabilities registers handling Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 18:44       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 01/14] PCI: add pcie_flags into struct pci_dev to cache PCIe capabilities register Jiang Liu
2012-07-11  9:01       ` Taku Izumi
2012-07-11 14:27         ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 02/14] PCI: introduce pci_pcie_type(dev) to replace pci_dev->pcie_type Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 03/14] PCI: remove unused field pcie_type from struct pci_dev Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 04/14] PCI: refine and move pcie_cap_has_*() macros to include/linux/pci.h Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 18:49       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 05/14] PCI: add access functions for PCIe capabilities to hide PCIe spec differences Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 18:35       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-11  3:07         ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-11  3:40           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-11  6:40             ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-11 17:52               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-12  2:56                 ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-12 20:49                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-15 16:47                     ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-16 17:29                       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-16 18:57                         ` Don Dutile
2012-07-17  0:09                         ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-17  0:14                           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 06/14] PCI: use PCIe cap access functions to simplify PCI core implementation Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 18:35       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-11  2:49         ` Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 07/14] hotplug/PCI: use PCIe cap access functions to simplify implementation Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 18:35       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 08/14] portdrv/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 09/14] pciehp/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 10/14] PME/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 11/14] AER/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 12/14] ASPM/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 13/14] r8169/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-07-10 15:54     ` [RFC PATCH 14/14] qib/PCI: " Jiang Liu
2012-08-15 19:12 ` [Resend with Ack][PATCH v1] PCI: allow acpiphp to handle PCIe ports without native PCIe hotplug capability Bjorn Helgaas
2012-08-16 15:15   ` Jiang Liu
2012-08-22 15:16   ` [PATCH v2] PCI: allow acpiphp to handle PCIe ports w/o " Jiang Liu
2012-09-24 22:10     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-09-25 15:16       ` Jiang Liu

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