From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Shevchenko Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] libata: export ata_get_cmd_descript() Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:35:47 +0200 Message-ID: <1418405747.17201.64.camel@linux.intel.com> References: <1418397391-13668-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <548B2524.9050806@cogentembedded.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <548B2524.9050806@cogentembedded.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 20:25 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > On 12/12/2014 06:16 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > The driver sata_dwc_460ex is using this symbol. To build it as a module we have > > to have the symbol exported. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro for that. > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko > > --- > > drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c > > index 3dbec89..74fef87 100644 > > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c > > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c > > @@ -2389,6 +2389,7 @@ const char *ata_get_cmd_descript(u8 command) > > > > return NULL; > > } > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ata_get_cmd_descript); > > Why not EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()? Some of the symbols are exported in that way. I think better to wait the maintainer to tell which is preferred there. > > MBR, Sergei > -- Andy Shevchenko Intel Finland Oy