Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type

Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05T13:50:50Z

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 4:24 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Currently, enum export is tristate, but export_unknown does not make
> sense in any way.
>
> If the symbol name starts with "__ksymtab_", but the section name
> does not start with "___ksymtab+" or "___ksymtab_gpl+", it is not
> an exported symbol. The variable name just happens to start with
> "__ksymtab_". Do not call sym_add_exported() in this case.
>
> __ksymtab_* is internally by EXPORT_SYMBOL(_GPL) but somebody may

I mean
"... is internally used by ..."

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Masahiro Yamada