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Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 09:33:32 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
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        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] drivers: export device_is_bound()
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:18:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> CC Greg
> 
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:30 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> >
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >
> > Export the symbol for device_is_bound() so that we can use it in gpio-sim
> > to check if the simulated GPIO chip is bound before fetching its driver
> > data from configfs callbacks in order to retrieve the name of the GPIO
> > chip device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/dd.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> > index 9179825ff646..c62c02e3490a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> > @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ bool device_is_bound(struct device *dev)
> >  {
> >         return dev->p && klist_node_attached(&dev->p->knode_driver);
> >  }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_is_bound);

No.  Please no.  Why is this needed?  Feels like someone is doing
something really wrong...

NACK.