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        "From": "Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>",
        "To": "linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,\n\tsamba-technical@lists.samba.org",
        "Cc": "metze@samba.org,\n\tSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,\n\tTom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,\n\tLong Li <longli@microsoft.com>,\n\tNamjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,\n\tChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH 0/2] smb: smbdirect: symbol export and header cleanups",
        "Date": "Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:43:34 +0200",
        "Message-ID": "<cover.1777463800.git.metze@samba.org>",
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    "content": "Hi,\n\nas suggested by Christoph here:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/aehrPuY60VMcYGU8@infradead.org/\n\nI've moved to use DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL\nfor the smbdirect symbols. This actually fixes a problem\nwith out of tree builds.\n\nAnd I've created a include/linux/smbdirect.h\nwhich also make out of tree builds for cifs.ko\nand ksmbd.ko easier.\n\nStefan Metzmacher (2):\n  smb: smbdirect: make use of DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE and\n    EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL\n  smb: smbdirect: introduce and use include/linux/smbdirect.h\n\n MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +\n fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c                     |  3 +-\n fs/smb/client/smbdirect.h                     |  2 +-\n fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c                |  3 +-\n fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.h                |  2 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/accept.c                     |  2 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/connect.c                    |  4 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/connection.c                 | 16 +++---\n fs/smb/smbdirect/debug.c                      |  2 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/devices.c                    |  2 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/internal.h                   |  4 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/listen.c                     |  2 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/mr.c                         |  6 +--\n fs/smb/smbdirect/rw.c                         |  2 +-\n fs/smb/smbdirect/smbdirect.h                  | 52 -------------------\n fs/smb/smbdirect/socket.c                     | 20 +++----\n .../public.h => include/linux/smbdirect.h     | 52 ++++++++++++++++---\n 17 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)\n delete mode 100644 fs/smb/smbdirect/smbdirect.h\n rename fs/smb/smbdirect/public.h => include/linux/smbdirect.h (76%)"
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