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

    Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:

    > On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 17:30 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
    >> Hi Boris,
    >>
    >> Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:
    >>
    >> > 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"?
    >> I am referring to Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
    >> here.
    >
    > Any reason why these Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
    > are not in the kernel tree?

    The Kernel GPL module that this patch reffers to is 'papr_scm' which is already
    in kernel tree at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c .

    ~ Vaibhav

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