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[34.86.60.15]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 6a1803df08f44-6e43e07394csm47677956d6.25.2025.02.10.10.33.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:33:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:33:32 -0500 From: Willem de Bruijn To: Eric Dumazet , "David S . Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Willem de Bruijn , Simon Horman , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Eric Dumazet Message-ID: <67aa467cdb521_6ea2129452@willemb.c.googlers.com.notmuch> In-Reply-To: <20250210082805.465241-1-edumazet@google.com> References: <20250210082805.465241-1-edumazet@google.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: add EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Dumazet wrote: > In this series I am adding EXPORT_IPV6_MOD and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() > so that we can replace some EXPORT_SYMBOL() when IPV6 is > not modular. > > This is making all the selected symbols internal to core > linux networking. Is the goal to avoid use by external code, similar to the recent addition of namespacified internal network exports with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL( , "NETDEV_INTERNAL")?