netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM/pxa: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for sharpsl_battery

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Message-Id: <86b73242-94bb-4537-92ec-51da02127848@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:12:22 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>, "Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
 "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "Daniel Mack" <daniel@...que.org>,
 "Haojian Zhuang" <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>,
 "Robert Jarzmik" <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
 "Ulf Hansson" <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, "Yangbo Lu" <yangbo.lu@....com>,
 "Joshua Kinard" <kumba@...too.org>
Cc: "Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 "open list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 "linux-mmc @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
 Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM/pxa: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for sharpsl_battery_kick

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, at 10:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> sharpsl_battery_kick is only used via symbol_get, which was only ever
> intended for very internal symbols like this one.  Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> for it so that symbol_get can enforce only being used on
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

The reasoning makes sense, and the patch looks good, so feel
free to take this through your tree.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Or let me know if you want a better fix. Since sharpsl_pm.c and
spitz.c are no longer loadable modules and just get linked together
these days, I think the variant below would be simpler (this could
be cleanup up further, endlessly, of course):

--- a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/spitz.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/spitz.c
@@ -518,17 +518,6 @@ static struct gpiod_lookup_table spitz_ads7846_gpio_table = {
        },
 };

-static void spitz_bl_kick_battery(void)
-{
-       void (*kick_batt)(void);
-
-       kick_batt = symbol_get(sharpsl_battery_kick);
-       if (kick_batt) {
-               kick_batt();
-               symbol_put(sharpsl_battery_kick);
-       }
-}
-
 static struct gpiod_lookup_table spitz_lcdcon_gpio_table = {
        .dev_id = "spi2.1",
        .table = {
@@ -556,7 +545,7 @@ static struct corgi_lcd_platform_data spitz_lcdcon_info = {
        .max_intensity          = 0x2f,
        .default_intensity      = 0x1f,
        .limit_mask             = 0x0b,
-       .kick_battery           = spitz_bl_kick_battery,
+       .kick_battery           = sharpsl_battery_kick,
 };

 static struct spi_board_info spitz_spi_devices[] = {