From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A26CC38A2A for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 11:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122DA20870 for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 11:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=alien8.de header.i=@alien8.de header.b="ajKU+NyT" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726873AbgEHLbG (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2020 07:31:06 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:44328 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726616AbgEHLbF (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2020 07:31:05 -0400 Received: from zn.tnic (p200300EC2F0C9800329C23FFFEA6A903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2f0c:9800:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 66CAE1EC01E3; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:31:04 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1588937464; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=1eqM0KO/acjhJgPqNx4KEjCLmfTHlkhC1fqE3NZnZhA=; b=ajKU+NyT9keoUt6VtrKMZVtvSJnvzuys44mYcAxyAE6kH9yzR/PrzP3uFRBt+pp8A8FVyU E78wCnGj0NbBySbEgAeq3zHanzqf4Zyq+QHBw2qGNAXgpycgeZvEP3xnORYihiuQwo7xgg dbJ72zHeXEVGMH005McwoEY0lgLmS+g= Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 13:31:00 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Vaibhav Jain Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Michael Ellerman , Oliver O'Halloran , Santosh Sivaraj , Steven Rostedt , Piotr Maziarz , Cezary Rojewski Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules Message-ID: <20200508113100.GA19436@zn.tnic> References: <20200508104922.72565-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> <20200508104922.72565-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200508104922.72565-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:19:19PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > 'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string > buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even > though the API has been stable for couple of years now its stills not > exported to external modules limiting its usage. > > Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark > seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to > external GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts of this What is "external GPL modules"? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette