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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:08:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] PM: sleep: core: Rearrange the handling of driver
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To:     Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:00 PM Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is an update including some fixes and extra patches based on the
> > continuation of the discussion [1].
>
> I haven't checked the updates in detail yet.  However, it seems that
> dev_pm_skip_suspend() and dev_pm_skip_resume() should be EXPORTed,
> since they are intended to be used by subsystems, which may be in
> modules.

OK, so what about an extra patch to export them?

Currently there are no modular users of these functions.