On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:56:33PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> The content of of_device_uevent() is currently hardcoded in a driver
> that can be compiled as a module. Nothing prevents of_device_uevent() to
> be exported to modules, most of the other helpers in of/device.c
> actually are. The reason why this helper was not exported is because it
> has been so far only useful in drivers/base, which is built-in anyway.
>
> With the idea of getting rid of the hardcoded implementation of
> of_device_uevent() in other places in the kernel, let's export it to GPL
> modules (very much like its cousins in the same file).
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/of/device.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Assuming Thierry will pick this series up.
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c
> index 0f00f1b80708..90131de6d75b 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/device.c
> @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ void of_device_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
> }
> mutex_unlock(&of_mutex);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_device_uevent);
>
> int of_device_uevent_modalias(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
> {
> --
> 2.34.1
>
