Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] arch: Export cpu_logical_map to modules
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 28 2021 - 01:09:55 EST
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 07:27:04PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In order to allow drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c to be built as a
> module and usable in GKI, export cpu_logical_map or __cpu_logical_map
> towards the modules. This follows what MIPS has been doing since
> 2dc2ae344e0e ("MIPS: Export __cpu_number_map and __cpu_logical_map.")
This seems like a pretty bad idea. For one you should export an
accessor instead of the data structure. And this probably should be an
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.