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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:28:15 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pin-yen Lin <treapking@chromium.org>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
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	Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
	Hsin-Te Yuan <yuanhsinte@chromium.org>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: Export
 device_link_flag_is_sync_state_only()
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 07:16:02PM +0800, Pin-yen Lin wrote:
> Export device_link_flag_is_sync_state_only() for future patches.

That says what, but not why.  This feels like an odd thing to export,
what should care about this type of thing?  What should a driver do
based on that information?  We need more information here.

thanks,

greg k-h