Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] PCI: retrieve host bridge by PCI bus

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:50:45 +1000

On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 08:30 +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_bus_host_bridge);
> 
> Yinghai, thanks for your time on this :-)
> 
> >
> >why do you need to export it?
> >
> 
> The reason is that we have introduced extra fields to "struct
> pci_host_bridge"
> in [PATCH 2/2] and platform want to access those extra fields. 

But the platform code is built-in, not modular, so it doesn't need
EXPORT_SYMBOL (additionally even if we wanted to export it we probably
also want it _GPL only, so EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, but I don't think we need
to).

Cheers,
Ben.