linux-kernel - Re: x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu

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Message-ID: <20190123155850.GB8721@amd>
Date:   Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:58:50 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        "Hutter, Tony" <hutter2@...l.gov>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Kash Pande <kash@...pleback.net>
Subject: Re: x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()

On Fri 2019-01-11 06:40:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 06:04:07AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant.  Sun explicitly did not
> > > want their code to work on Linux, so why would we do extra work to get
> > > their code to work properly?
> > 
> > ZoL facilitates seamless r/w cross-mounting with macOS, something no
> > other filesystem allows, and that feature is critical for me to work
> > on Linux drivers for Mac hardware.  Please don't make life harder than
> > necessary for developers like me.  Your "extra work" argument seems
> > disingenuous to me, Sebastian's patch is causing extra work for
> > ZFS developers, not the kernel community.  The maintenance burden
> > for the kernel community to retain the export is zero.
> 
> Sorry, no, we do not keep symbols exported for no in-kernel users.

Killing ZFS is _not_ nice. Its not like ZFS is closed source... 
 
									Pavel
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