linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 06/15] fs,fork,exit: export symbols necessary for KUnit UAPI support

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Message-ID: <aHehrhXgQohy1JnQ@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:57:18 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/15] fs,fork,exit: export symbols necessary for
 KUnit UAPI support

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 02:47:08PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> This is exactly what I did in the beginning. Then I got told about the distros
> using KUNIT=m [0] and decided that it does make sense to support.

Well, not if you need to export tons of stuff for it.

> The actual code using these exports [1] was Cc'ed to both linux-fsdevel and
> linux-mm. In addition to the cover-letter and the exports patch.
> The rest of the series does not interact with the exports at all.


Incomplete series are not reviewable.  Don't even start arguing about
that, if you don't send series to all list they deserve to be ignored
in general.