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From:   Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:00:09 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Export of_node_ktype for modular use of of_init_node
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 5:31 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
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> To permit the use of of_init_node() by kernel modules, we must export
> of_node_ktype which is directly referenced by kobject_init() called from
> of_init_node() otherwise modules would be getting linking failures.

You mean of_node_init()?

There's not anything in the kernel using this that's a module. It's a
low level function that I don't really want to see more users for.

Rob