Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm: cma: Export a few symbols

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:35:50PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 13-02-17 14:44:16, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 08:20:47PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > [CC CMA people]
> > > 
> > > On Thu 09-02-17 17:39:17, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > Modules might want to check their CMA pool size and address for debugging
> > > > and / or have additional checks.
> > > > 
> > > > The obvious way to do this would be through dev_get_cma_area and
> > > > cma_get_base and cma_get_size, that are currently not exported, which
> > > > results in a build failure.
> > > > 
> > > > Export them to prevent such a failure.
> > > 
> > > Who actually uses those exports. None of the follow up patches does
> > > AFAICS.
> > 
> > This is for the ARM Mali GPU driver that is out of tree, unfortunately.
> 
> We do not export symbols which do not have any in-tree users.

Ok, sorry for the noise.

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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