linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: cdc_ncm: Export cdc_ncm_{tx,rx}

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1308161550050.24009@eeeadesso>
Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:51:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@...il.com>,
	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cdc_ncm: Export cdc_ncm_{tx,rx}_fixup functions
 for re-use

Yes, you're right. I'm sorry - this time I didn't apply numbering scheme to 
those 3 patches - yet they are consequential, but not depending on each other 
from a strict point of view.

Thank you for your review Greg!


On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

==Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:49:07 -0700
==From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
==To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@...il.com>
==Cc: Bj?rn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
==    linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
==Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cdc_ncm: Export cdc_ncm_{tx,
==    rx}_fixup functions for re-use
==
==On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:39:19PM +0200, Enrico Mioso wrote:
==> Some drivers implementing NCM-like protocols, may re-use those functions, as is 
==> the case in the huawei_cdc_ncm driver.
==
==Where is that driver at, I don't see it in the kernel tree.
==
==> Export them via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
==
==Normally we don't export symbols until code that actually uses the
==symbols lands in the tree at the same time.
==
==thanks,
==
==greg k-h
==
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