linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 11/11] unicode: only export internal symbols for the selftests

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Message-ID: <20210818145813.GA13343@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:58:13 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel@...labora.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] unicode: only export internal symbols for the
 selftests

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:56:59PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 04:06:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The exported symbols in utf8-norm.c are not needed for normal
> > file system consumers, so move them to conditional _GPL exports
> > just for the selftest.
> 
> Would it be better to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL()?

Maybe.  Even better would be the EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR I've been prototyping
for a while but which is still not ready.