[PATCH v3 02/15] modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type
Nicolas Schier
nicolas at fjasle.eu
Fri May 6 05:53:56 AEST 2022
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 10:48:55PM +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 4:24 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, enum export is tristate, but export_unknown does not make
> > sense in any way.
> >
> > If the symbol name starts with "__ksymtab_", but the section name
> > does not start with "___ksymtab+" or "___ksymtab_gpl+", it is not
> > an exported symbol. The variable name just happens to start with
> > "__ksymtab_". Do not call sym_add_exported() in this case.
> >
> > __ksymtab_* is internally by EXPORT_SYMBOL(_GPL) but somebody may
>
> I mean
> "... is internally used by ..."
Looks good to me; a nice cleanup.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas at fjasle.eu>
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