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[v1,1/1] PNP: Export pnp_bus_type for modules

Message ID 20240527202424.1430103-1-andy.shevchenko@gmail.com
State New
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Series [v1,1/1] PNP: Export pnp_bus_type for modules | expand

Commit Message

Andy Shevchenko May 27, 2024, 8:24 p.m. UTC
Since we have dev_is_pnp() macro that utilises the address of pnp_bus_type
variable, the users, which can be compiled as modules, will be failed to
build. Export the variable to the modules to prevent build breakage.

Reported-by: Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cc8a93b2-2504-9754-e26c-5d5c3bd1265c@gmail.com
Fixes: 2a49b45cd0e7 ("PNP: Add dev_is_pnp() macro")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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 drivers/pnp/driver.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

'Christoph Hellwig' May 28, 2024, 4:58 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 11:24:24PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Since we have dev_is_pnp() macro that utilises the address of pnp_bus_type
> variable, the users, which can be compiled as modules, will be failed to
> build. Export the variable to the modules to prevent build breakage.

NAK.  Please move dev_is_pnp out of line and export it (as
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL), please.  bus types should be private unless we have
really good reasons for them not to be private.
Andy Shevchenko May 28, 2024, 7:10 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 7:58 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 11:24:24PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Since we have dev_is_pnp() macro that utilises the address of pnp_bus_type
> > variable, the users, which can be compiled as modules, will be failed to
> > build. Export the variable to the modules to prevent build breakage.
>
> NAK.  Please move dev_is_pnp out of line and export it (as
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL), please.  bus types should be private unless we have
> really good reasons for them not to be private.

Works for me, I'll redo it in the v2, thank you for the review.
'Christoph Hellwig' May 28, 2024, 7:14 a.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 10:12:31AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > NAK.  Please move dev_is_pnp out of line and export it (as
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL), please.  bus types should be private unless we have
> > really good reasons for them not to be private.
> 
> FWIW, it's not private, it's just not exported to the modules. Are you
> suggesting to hide the bus type completely to make it static? If so,
> this is out of scope of this fix.

Not exporting it is the most important bit.  Making it private would
be even better of course.
Andy Shevchenko May 28, 2024, 9:52 a.m. UTC | #4
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 12:42 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:24 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since we have dev_is_pnp() macro that utilises the address of pnp_bus_type
> > variable, the users, which can be compiled as modules, will be failed to
> > build. Export the variable to the modules to prevent build breakage.

...

> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnp_bus_type);
>
> Why not EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?

To be consistent with the rest, but in any case Christoph suggested
something else, where _GPL is assumed to be.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/pnp/driver.c b/drivers/pnp/driver.c
index 0a5d0d8befa8..1394d17bd6f7 100644
--- a/drivers/pnp/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/pnp/driver.c
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@  const struct bus_type pnp_bus_type = {
 	.pm	 = &pnp_bus_dev_pm_ops,
 	.dev_groups = pnp_dev_groups,
 };
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnp_bus_type);
 
 int pnp_register_driver(struct pnp_driver *drv)
 {