linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] tick/sched: Export symbols used by cpuidle governors

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Message-ID: <87wnkp9r1u.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:12:13 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Maulik Shah <quic_mkshah@...cinc.com>, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        rafael@...nel.org, daniel.lezcano@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ulf.hansson@...aro.org,
        quic_lsrao@...cinc.com, rnayak@...eaurora.org,
        Maulik Shah <quic_mkshah@...cinc.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] tick/sched: Export symbols used by cpuidle governors

On Thu, Nov 25 2021 at 14:24, Maulik Shah wrote:
>  bool tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly  = true;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tick_nohz_enabled);

If any of this gets ever exported then with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), but I
agree with Rafael that there is no real value for this, so the exports
are not required either.

Thanks,

        tglx