Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] block: export block_class and disk_type symbols

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat May 01 2021 - 02:24:51 EST


On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 03:32:10PM -0300, Enzo Matsumiya wrote:
> Export symbols to be used by _for_each_blk() helper in LED block
> trigger.
>
> Signed-off-by: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/genhd.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index 8c8f543572e6..516495179230 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -1218,6 +1218,7 @@ static void disk_release(struct device *dev)
> struct class block_class = {
> .name = "block",
> };
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_class);
>
> static char *block_devnode(struct device *dev, umode_t *mode,
> kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
> @@ -1235,6 +1236,7 @@ const struct device_type disk_type = {
> .release = disk_release,
> .devnode = block_devnode,
> };
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(disk_type);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> /*

Please please no. These should not be needed by anything.

And if they really do, they must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

thanks,

greg k-h