From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
sachin.kamat@linaro.org
Subject: Re: net: export TSO helper functions
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 14:52:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6987021.dP2tJ87JXR@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140527123747.GB1655@arch.cereza>
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 09:37:47 Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On 27 May 12:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The software TSO helper API was recently added but so far only
> > works for built-in device drivers. This adds appropriate exports
> > to let us build the drivers using it as loadable modules.
> >
>
> Thanks for the patch. Another similar fix was sent recently:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/352452/
Ah, I missed that.
> which proposes to use EXPORT_SYMBOL, instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Being a core
> API, I think the former is more appropriate, so I'd rather pick it instead of
> this one.
I use _GPL out of principle for any new code, but it's not important to
me here, as long as one of the patches gets applied.
Arnd
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 10:16 net: export TSO helper functions Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-27 12:37 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-05-27 12:52 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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