linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel: irq: msi: Export symbols for TI SCI INTA MSI module compilation

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Message-ID: <9d77242e-8cf3-4179-82d7-24109bace40d@baylibre.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:03:52 +0200
From: Guillaume La Roque <glaroque@...libre.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, vigneshr@...com,
 Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
 Tero Kristo <kristo@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel: irq: msi: Export symbols for TI SCI INTA MSI
 module compilation

Le 18/07/2025 à 22:57, Thomas Gleixner a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 07 2025 at 17:35, Guillaume La Roque wrote:
>
> The made up subsystem prefix is not really useful. See:
>
>    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html#patch-subject
>
>> Export MSI domain management functions to allow the TI SCI INTA MSI
>> driver to be compiled as a module. The following symbols are now
>> available for module use:
> While symbols is technically correct, it's way simpler to understand
> that these are functions.
>
>> - msi_domain_insert_msi_desc
> And with that you want to use function notation, i.e. foo() instead of foo.
>
> Thanks,
>
>          tglx

Thanks for feedback i'll fix in v2.

Guillaume