Re: [PATCH 0/3] CPUFreq Fixes for 3.10-rc2

[Viresh Kumar]

On 17 May 2013 17:46, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, May 17, 2013 10:13:37 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> On 17 May 2013 02:21, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > While I kind of understand why you want [3/3] to go into 3.10, I'm wondering
>> > about the other two patches.  Why exactly are they needed now?
>>
>> First one:
>>
>>   cpufreq: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for have_governor_per_policy
>>
>> is required so that governors can be compiled as module. Otherwise they
>> may break.. I haven't tried that but I believe that is the case.
>
> Did you try to build them as modules?

That's what: "I haven't tried that but I believe that is the case."..
Modules need variables to be exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
to be used by them.. And I thought this is pretty straight forward.
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