From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8•de>
To: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux•ibm.com>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix•org>,
linux-nvdimm@lists•01.org,
Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel•com>,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis•org>,
Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux•intel.com>,
Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail•com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux•ibm.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel•com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 13:31:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200508113100.GA19436@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200508104922.72565-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:19:19PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> 'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string
> buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even
> though the API has been stable for couple of years now its stills not
> exported to external modules limiting its usage.
>
> Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark
> seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
> external GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts of this
What is "external GPL modules"?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-08 10:49 [PATCH v7 0/5] powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for reporting nvdimm health Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] powerpc: Document details on H_SCM_HEALTH hcall Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 11:31 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-05-08 12:00 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 14:52 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-10 12:57 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 16:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-08 16:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-05-10 13:03 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 13:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-10 13:08 ` Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm health information from PHYP Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] ndctl/papr_scm, uapi: Add support for PAPR nvdimm specific methods Vaibhav Jain
2020-05-08 10:49 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] powerpc/papr_scm: Implement support for PAPR_SCM_PDSM_HEALTH Vaibhav Jain
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