linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages

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Message-ID: <20190626054645.GB17798@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:46:45 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

On Tue 25-06-19 12:52:18, Dan Williams wrote:
[...]
> > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> 
> That document has failed to preclude symbol export fights in the past
> and there is a reasonable argument to try not to retract functionality
> that had been previously exported regardless of that document.

Can you point me to any specific example where this would be the case
for the core kernel symbols please?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs