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Message-ID: <20070713060511.GA23618@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:05:11 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Move prototypes for EXPORT_SYMBOL functions to
include/linux/pci.h
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:55:39AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> pci_do_scan_bus() and pci_bus_find_capability() are marked EXPORT_SYMBOL
> >> and thus usable outside of the PCI drive core itself. Make the prototypes
> >> for these functions accessible to everyone.
> >
> > Well, no, I'd like to only have the pci hotplug drivers use them if
> > possible. So until we have proper namespaces on the exported symbols,
> > I'd really like to keep these as-is if possible.
> >
> > Or are you needing these symbols for some code outside of the
> > drivers/pci/ directory tree?
>
> I need pci_bus_find_capability() in arch/powerpc pci code.
>
> I'm using it as a way to tell if we are a PCIe PHB.
Ok, care to export only that function then?
thanks,
greg k-h
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