From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.85_2 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1bxaaE-0000jP-0Q for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:14:09 +0000 Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20161021.101343.1389577512803674816.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: Export kexec_in_progress to modules From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <871szagtls.fsf@xmission.com> References: <1477012516-20470-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20161020.215410.650162338407203719.davem@davemloft.net> <871szagtls.fsf@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:26:55 -0500 > So as far as I can tell you are advocating for a change to support a > driver doing something that is completely pointless. So no let's not > export this symbol. Please fix the driver to do something less > pointless instead. FLorian explained his reasoning for doing what he is doing in this specific driver and it made sense to me. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec