From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
"Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>,
Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>,
Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:38:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgg86ipn.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zd6czj3.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:
> Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:
>> 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"?
>
> A module that has MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") ?
Yes, by "external GPL modules" I meant Kernel lodable modules with
licensed as "GPL"
~ Vaibhav
>
> cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-10 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-08 10:49 [PATCH v7 0/5] powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for reporting nvdimm health Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] powerpc: Document details on H_SCM_HEALTH hcall Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 11:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-08 12:00 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 14:52 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-10 12:57 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 16:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-08 16:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-05-10 13:03 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 13:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-10 13:08 ` Vaibhav Jain [this message]
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm health information from PHYP Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] ndctl/papr_scm,uapi: Add support for PAPR nvdimm specific methods Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] powerpc/papr_scm: Implement support for PAPR_SCM_PDSM_HEALTH Vaibhav Jain
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