On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Mika Westerberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:23:19PM -0700, David Daney wrote: >> From: David Daney <[email protected]> >> >> The acpi_dev_prop_read() and acpi_dev_prop_read_single() can be called >> by drivers. Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to them to allow use by modular >> drivers. This makes them consistent with acpi_dev_get_property() and >> acpi_node_get_property_reference() which are already exported. >> >> Signed-off-by: David Daney <[email protected]> >> --- >> FWIW: We hope to submit soon Cavium Thunder networking patches that >> fail under modular builds without these exports. > > You should not be using these functions directly in drivers.
That's exactly my point.

