Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:15:37 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: export vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat() |
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 05:08:26PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > > And why would you want to use them in kernel module? Please explain > > that in the patch that exports them, and please send that patch in the > > same series as the patches adding the users. > > we're using it in the modules for testing our crypto driver on our CI system. > is it mandatory to upstream it if we want to use this function?
Yes. And chances are that you do not actaully need these functions either, but to suggest a better placement I need to actually see the code.
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