Re: [PATCH] of: Export of_node_ktype for modular use of of_init_node

[Florian Fainelli]

On 8/21/20 3:00 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 5:31 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> To permit the use of of_init_node() by kernel modules, we must export
>> of_node_ktype which is directly referenced by kobject_init() called from
>> of_init_node() otherwise modules would be getting linking failures.
> 
> You mean of_node_init()?

Yes, I kept inverting the two words.

> 
> There's not anything in the kernel using this that's a module. It's a
> low level function that I don't really want to see more users for.

OK, fair enough, the candidate use I had in mind is probably too ugly to
be submitted upstream anyway.
-- 
Florian