On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 17:30 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > Hi Boris, > > Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> writes: > > > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:19:19PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > > > 'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string > > > buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even > > > though the API has been stable for couple of years now its stills not > > > exported to external modules limiting its usage. > > > > > > Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark > > > seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to > > > external GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts of this > > > > What is "external GPL modules"? > I am referring to Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") > here.
Any reason why these Kernel Loadable Modules with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") are not in the kernel tree?