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From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:40:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 2/6] seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
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        Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
        Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>,
        Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:56 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 06:14:03PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> > '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>
> > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > Changelog:
> >
> > v12..v13:
> > * None
> >
> > v11..v12:
> > * None
>
> Can you please resend your patchset once a week like everyone else and
> not flood inboxes with it?

Hi Boris,

I gave Vaibhav some long shot hope that his series could be included
in my libnvdimm pull request for -rc1. Save for a last minute clang
report that I misread as a gcc warning, I likely would have included.
This spin is looking to address the last of the comments I had and
something I would consider for -rc2. So, in this case the resends were
requested by me and I'll take the grumbles on Vaibhav's behalf.