Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/26] mm: Export writeback_iter() | Date | Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:55:00 +0100 |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:10:47AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > That depends. You put a comment on write_cache_pages() saying that people > > should use writeback_iter() instead. w_c_p() is not marked GPL. Is it your > > intention to get rid of it? > > Yes. If you think you're not a derivate work of Linux you have no > business using either one.
So why are we bothering with EXPORT_SYMBOL at all? Why don't you just send a patch replace all of them with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?
David
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