On 8/21/20 3:00 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 5:31 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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()? Yes, I kept inverting the two words. > > 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. OK, fair enough, the candidate use I had in mind is probably too ugly to be submitted upstream anyway. -- Florian
