Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf() to external modules
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Fri May 08 2020 - 09:43:48 EST
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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"?
A module that has MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") ?
cheers