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Message-ID: <20240403101422.GA7285@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:14:22 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
	Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
	Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
	Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.com>,
	Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>,
	Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>, netfs@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, v9fs@...ts.linux.dev,
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	linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/26] mm: Export writeback_iter()

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:10:47AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> That depends.  You put a comment on write_cache_pages() saying that people
> should use writeback_iter() instead.  w_c_p() is not marked GPL.  Is it your
> intention to get rid of it?

Yes.  If you think you're not a derivate work of Linux you have no
business using either one.


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