linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iomap: Export iomap_page_create and iomap_set_range

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Message-ID: <20191212095533.GA23944@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:55:33 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iomap: Export iomap_page_create and
 iomap_set_range_uptodate

At very least this needs to be a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in sent in a series
with the actual user.  But I'm not all that happy about exporting such
low-level helpers.  Can't we come up with a useful higher level
primitive instead?