Re: [PATCH v3 05/12] thermal/core: Remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOLS

[Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>]

Hi Daniel,

(+Todd and Wei on CC)


On 7/3/22 19:30, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Different functions are exporting the symbols but are actually only
> used by the thermal framework internals. Remove these EXPORT_SYMBOLS.
> 
> Cc: Alexandre Bailon <abailon@baylibre.com>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
> Cc; Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linexp.org>
> ---
>   drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> index 3edd047e144f..f4c1e87ef040 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ int get_tz_trend(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip)
>   
>   	return trend;
>   }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_tz_trend);
>   
>   struct thermal_instance *
>   get_thermal_instance(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
> @@ -228,7 +227,6 @@ void thermal_cdev_update(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>   	}
>   	mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock);
>   }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(thermal_cdev_update);

I wouldn't remove that export. I can see in my Pixel6 modules dir, that
it's called in 7 places.

I assume that in Android world this is common use.

Regards,
Lukasz