[PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 8 May 2020 18:09:35 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de> wrote:

> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 05:30:31PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> > I am referring to Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
> > here.  
> 
> And what does "external" refer to? Because if it is out-of-tree, we
> don't export symbols for out-of-tree modules.

I've always wondered about this. Why not?

-- Steve