On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 17:30 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
Hi Boris,
Borislav Petkov <bp(a)alien8.de> writes:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:19:19PM +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 stills not
> > exported to external 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
> > external GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts of this
>
> What is "external GPL modules"?
I am referring to Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
here.
Any reason why these Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
are not in the kernel tree?