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

Vaibhav Jain vaibhav at linux.ibm.com
Sun May 10 23:03:02 AEST 2020


Hi Boris,

Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de> writes:

> 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.
>
> Looks like you're exporting it for that papr_scm.c thing, which is fine.
> But that is not "external".
>
> So?

I should have used the term 'non-builtin' or 'kernel loadable' modules rather than
external modules in this patch description. Apologies for the confusion it caused.

~ Vaibhav
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