Re: [PATCH] PCI: export pci_find_host_bridge() to fix MFD build error

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:02:19AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:14:53PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Fix a build error in drivers/mfd/ioc.o by exporting
> > pci_find_host_bridge().
> > 
> > ERROR: modpost: "pci_find_host_bridge" [drivers/mfd/ioc3.ko] undefined!
> 
> I think the mfd code should be fixed to not depend on such an internal
> symbol instead.

are you talking about the EXPORT_SYMBOL or the usage of
pci_find_host_bridge() outside of drivers/pci ? If the latter the
function is used in arm/arm64 code and pci controller code... so
I doesn't look like a pure internal symbol to me.

Thomas.

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