linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: export disk_part_iter

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Message-ID: <36934d10-bfb2-032e-813b-a514ee524853@windriver.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:01:10 +0800
From:   "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@...driver.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: export disk_part_iter_* helpers



On 3/26/21 8:13 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [Please note: This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]
> 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:10:59PM +0800, yanfei.xu@...driver.com wrote:
>> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@...driver.com>
>>
>> disk_part_iter_* helpers might be used by other external modules, like
>> lttng-modules. But it was unexport in 'commit bc359d03c7ec ("block: add
>> a disk_uevent helper")'. Here export them again.
> 
> Err, no.  We never export things for out of tree modules.  And any kind
> of driver code has absolutely no business looking at the partition tables
> to start with, modular or not.
> I see. Thanks.

//Yanfei