From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CDEC38A2A for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA2020661 for ; Fri, 8 May 2020 13:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=ellerman.id.au header.i=@ellerman.id.au header.b="myzmSBT/" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727952AbgEHNnr (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2020 09:43:47 -0400 Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org ([203.11.71.1]:40931 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726736AbgEHNnq (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2020 09:43:46 -0400 Received: from authenticated.ozlabs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49JWkk2BXVz9sT2; Fri, 8 May 2020 23:43:42 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ellerman.id.au; s=201909; t=1588945424; bh=p+YBkyP2GHp01pThlHZu2zNE3/neu24osdVU16EmOus=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=myzmSBT/czcoOa5b0uNfJvnSn0EcensBRxDGTXSXsFZHz7Ctw4cmolttivclZzczn TlU4xQX1sFeEGOftI9Vt/Yg7n9poabHDRrJD9dFFlDt9HOZEqTv21AH+l6TCSACJ+G LzS3HI2pTjb4HspWPolQxP9uBnlTFgDZQ6ylB+dBKG4qPpkcOlxszBgodBCGGUmAFz Q93GiXrPMyhMZQGgNOXOYLEcRd+vvVE96ReVfh9QW0MP4ysX2iPOSugJKl/xbhnJGC +t49vCyjdXj2x+CfQrmiPjxrxBDghm8z3dEzePmFlSG9Pl3oO4Ea39uGSlgu+ZudGZ ayiGjaAF21wwA== From: Michael Ellerman To: Borislav Petkov , Vaibhav Jain Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Oliver O'Halloran , Santosh Sivaraj , Steven Rostedt , Piotr Maziarz , Cezary Rojewski Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules In-Reply-To: <20200508113100.GA19436@zn.tnic> References: <20200508104922.72565-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> <20200508104922.72565-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> <20200508113100.GA19436@zn.tnic> Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:44:00 +1000 Message-ID: <875zd6czj3.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Borislav Petkov 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"? A module that has MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") ? cheers