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

From: Gavin Shan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:01:11 +0800

>> >> +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).
>

Ben, thanks for correcting me :-)

Let me remove EXPORT_SYMBOL() is next revision.

>Cheers,
>Ben.

Thanks,
Gavin