Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] drivers: export device_is_bound()

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:18:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> CC Greg
> 
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:30 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Export the symbol for device_is_bound() so that we can use it in gpio-sim
> > to check if the simulated GPIO chip is bound before fetching its driver
> > data from configfs callbacks in order to retrieve the name of the GPIO
> > chip device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/dd.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> > index 9179825ff646..c62c02e3490a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> > @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ bool device_is_bound(struct device *dev)
> >  {
> >         return dev->p && klist_node_attached(&dev->p->knode_driver);
> >  }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_is_bound);

No.  Please no.  Why is this needed?  Feels like someone is doing
something really wrong...

NACK.