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From: "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: export disk_part_iter_* helpers
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:01:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36934d10-bfb2-032e-813b-a514ee524853@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326121359.GA14989@lst.de>



On 3/26/21 8:13 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [Please note: This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]
> 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:10:59PM +0800, yanfei.xu@windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
>>
>> disk_part_iter_* helpers might be used by other external modules, like
>> lttng-modules. But it was unexport in 'commit bc359d03c7ec ("block: add
>> a disk_uevent helper")'. Here export them again.
> 
> Err, no.  We never export things for out of tree modules.  And any kind
> of driver code has absolutely no business looking at the partition tables
> to start with, modular or not.
> I see. Thanks.

//Yanfei

      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 12:10 [PATCH] block: export disk_part_iter_* helpers yanfei.xu
2021-03-26 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-26 13:01   ` Xu, Yanfei [this message]

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