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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:55:00 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/26] mm: Export writeback_iter()
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> 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.
So why are we bothering with EXPORT_SYMBOL at all? Why don't you just send a
patch replace all of them with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?
David
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