Re: [PATCH] kexec: Export kexec_in_progress to modules

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Oct 21 2016 - 10:13:57 EST


From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:26:55 -0500

> So as far as I can tell you are advocating for a change to support a
> driver doing something that is completely pointless. So no let's not
> export this symbol. Please fix the driver to do something less
> pointless instead.

FLorian explained his reasoning for doing what he is doing in this
specific driver and it made sense to me.