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From: "Semwal, Sumit" <sumit.semwal@ti.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:40:04 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: Use EXPORT_SYMBOL
To: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com> wrote:
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is intended to be used for "an internal implementation
> issue, and not really an interface".  The dma-buf infrastructure is
> explicitly intended as an interface between modules/drivers, so it
> should use EXPORT_SYMBOL instead.

+ Konrad, Arnd, Mauro: there were strong objections on using
EXPORT_SYMBOL in place of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL by all 3 of them; I
suggest we first arrive at a consensus before merging this patch.

Best regards,
~Sumit.
<snip>