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[v8,2/5] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf

Message ID 20200527041244.37821-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for reporting nvdimm health | expand

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Commit Message

Vaibhav Jain May 27, 2020, 4:12 a.m. UTC
'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string
buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even
though the API has been stable for couple of years now its still not
exported to kernel loadable modules limiting its usage.

Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark
seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
kernel loadable GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts
of this patch-set to simplify content creation for a sysfs attribute.

Cc: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changelog:

v7..v8:
* Updated the patch title [ Christoph Hellwig ]
* Updated patch description to replace confusing term 'external kernel
  modules' to 'kernel lodable modules'.

Resend:
* Added ack from Steven Rostedt

v6..v7:
* New patch in the series
---
 lib/seq_buf.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Vaibhav Jain June 1, 2020, 12:01 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Christoph and Steven,

Have addressed your review comment to update the patch description and
title for this patch. Can you please provide your ack to this patch.

Thanks,
~ Vaibhav

Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> writes:

> 'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string
> buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even
> though the API has been stable for couple of years now its still not
> exported to kernel loadable modules limiting its usage.
>
> Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark
> seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
> kernel loadable GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts
> of this patch-set to simplify content creation for a sysfs attribute.
>
> Cc: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
>
> v7..v8:
> * Updated the patch title [ Christoph Hellwig ]
> * Updated patch description to replace confusing term 'external kernel
>   modules' to 'kernel lodable modules'.
>
> Resend:
> * Added ack from Steven Rostedt
>
> v6..v7:
> * New patch in the series
> ---
>  lib/seq_buf.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/seq_buf.c b/lib/seq_buf.c
> index 4e865d42ab03..707453f5d58e 100644
> --- a/lib/seq_buf.c
> +++ b/lib/seq_buf.c
> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ int seq_buf_printf(struct seq_buf *s, const char *fmt, ...)
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(seq_buf_printf);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>
--
Steven Rostedt June 1, 2020, 1:48 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:31:31 +0530
Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Christoph and Steven,
> 
> Have addressed your review comment to update the patch description and
> title for this patch. Can you please provide your ack to this patch.
> 
> 

I thought I already did, but it appears it was a reply to a private email
you sent to me. I didn't realize it was off list.

Anyway:

 Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve
Vaibhav Jain June 1, 2020, 2:46 p.m. UTC | #3
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

> On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:31:31 +0530
> Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christoph and Steven,
>> 
>> Have addressed your review comment to update the patch description and
>> title for this patch. Can you please provide your ack to this patch.
>> 
>> 
>
> I thought I already did, but it appears it was a reply to a private email
> you sent to me. I didn't realize it was off list.
>
> Anyway:
>
>  Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Thanks Steven,

Had added your ack to Resend-v7 of this patch at [1] on which Christoph
Hellwig requested an update of patch title. Hence needed your re-ack for
this version of the patch

[1] : https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/20200519190058.257981-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com/

>
> -- Steve

Cheers
~ Vaibhav
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/seq_buf.c b/lib/seq_buf.c
index 4e865d42ab03..707453f5d58e 100644
--- a/lib/seq_buf.c
+++ b/lib/seq_buf.c
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@  int seq_buf_printf(struct seq_buf *s, const char *fmt, ...)
 
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(seq_buf_printf);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
 /**