linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Export of_node_ktype for modular use of of_init

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Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:01:27 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Export of_node_ktype for modular use of of_init_node

On 8/21/20 3:00 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 5:31 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> To permit the use of of_init_node() by kernel modules, we must export
>> of_node_ktype which is directly referenced by kobject_init() called from
>> of_init_node() otherwise modules would be getting linking failures.
> 
> You mean of_node_init()?

Yes, I kept inverting the two words.

> 
> There's not anything in the kernel using this that's a module. It's a
> low level function that I don't really want to see more users for.

OK, fair enough, the candidate use I had in mind is probably too ugly to
be submitted upstream anyway.
-- 
Florian