Re: xen_biovec_phys_mergeable not exported

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 02:09:40PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2011-09-20 22:25, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 
> > In my NVMe driver, I call BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE().  If CONFIG_XEN
> > is defined, it references xen_biovec_phys_mergeable() which is not
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL.  I think BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGABLE is a perfectly kosher thing
> > to be calling from a module that implements a bio-based block driver,
> > so I think the right thing to do is to add an EXPORT_SYMBOL(_GPL?) to
> > the Xen code when I submit the driver.

I am OK with that.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a different opinion on this?
> 
> Yep, lets just export it for now. Long term, that functionality will be
> moving back into the block layer when we unify the queuing models.
> 
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> Jens Axboe
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