Re: Reqeust export symbol for API in arch/arm64/*

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:46:45PM +0900, ïÖïïï/DONGHYEOK CHOE wrote:
> I am software engineer in charge of BSP (Samsung SOC vendor).
> 
> Recently, Google introduced GKI from Android R version.
> We cannot use mainline API without 'export symbol' by the GKI policy.
> But we want to make an arm64 specific vendor driver in {kernel source
> root}/drivers/soc/samsung/*.
> 
> Could you support us to use the below APIs?

Sorry, but as a general rule of thumb the kernel doesn't EXPORT symbols
that are not used by in-tree modules. You'll need to submit your drivers
along with the patches doing the exports if they are to be considered
for inclusion.

Thanks,

Will