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Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols.

From Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols.
Date 2016-03-17 09:10 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:23:19PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> 
> The acpi_dev_prop_read() and acpi_dev_prop_read_single() can be called
> by drivers.  Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to them to allow use by modular
> drivers.  This makes them consistent with acpi_dev_get_property() and
> acpi_node_get_property_reference() which are already exported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> ---
> FWIW: We hope to submit soon Cavium Thunder networking patches that
> fail under modular builds without these exports.

You should not be using these functions directly in drivers.

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[PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 01:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols. "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-17 02:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols. Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-17 09:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols. "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-17 14:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 21:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] ACPI / property: Export a couple of symbols. "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-17 23:00 +0100

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