Messages in this thread | | | From | Vaibhav Jain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules | Date | Sun, 10 May 2020 18:27:00 +0530 |
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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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