Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 08 May 2020 07:52:30 -0700 |
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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?
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