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To: Guillaume La Roque <glaroque@baylibre.com>, vigneshr@ti.com, Nishanth
 Menon <nm@ti.com>, Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>, Tero Kristo
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
 Guillaume La Roque <glaroque@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel: irq: msi: Export symbols for TI SCI INTA
 MSI module compilation
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:57:10 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 07 2025 at 17:35, Guillaume La Roque wrote:

The made up subsystem prefix is not really useful. See:

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html#patch-subject

> Export MSI domain management functions to allow the TI SCI INTA MSI
> driver to be compiled as a module. The following symbols are now
> available for module use:

While symbols is technically correct, it's way simpler to understand
that these are functions.

> - msi_domain_insert_msi_desc

And with that you want to use function notation, i.e. foo() instead of foo.

Thanks,

        tglx