Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri May 08 2020 - 07:31:08 EST


On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:19:19PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> 'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string
> buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even
> though the API has been stable for couple of years now its stills not
> exported to external modules limiting its usage.
>
> Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark
> seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
> external GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts of this

What is "external GPL modules"?

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