linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SPI LPC information kernel module

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Message-ID: <20200630090057.GG637809@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:00:57 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@...ypsium.com>
Cc:     Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@...inx.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>,
        Alex Bazhaniuk <alex@...ypsium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SPI LPC information kernel module

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:59:32PM -0300, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_read_sbase);

Why are you exporting symbols?  Nothing in this patch uses them.

And that's the spi_* namespace for the SPI core, not your tiny driver,
why pollute the global namespace in a confusing way like this?

thanks,

greg k-h