From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>,
"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>,
Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>,
Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:39:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aHSmIa3uffj5vW-m@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250711065742.00d6668b@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 06:57:42AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I want to bring up this discussion. I understand there's a policy not to
> add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() unless there's a current user of it in the kernel
> proper. My question is, does this policy have to be draconian?
Yes. Making exception for friends and family is like Austrian law
enforcement and thus errodes the whole principle. If you think lttng
is useful help ustreaming it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-14 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-09 21:25 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Improvements to unwind user Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-07-09 21:25 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] unwind_user: Fix userspace unwind iterator 32-bit compat handling Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-07-09 21:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-07-11 7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-11 10:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-11 11:38 ` Greg KH
2025-07-11 13:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-11 16:39 ` Greg KH
2025-07-11 17:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-11 18:24 ` Greg KH
2025-07-11 18:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-15 14:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-11 14:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-11 14:17 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-07-11 18:10 ` dan.j.williams
2025-07-11 18:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 6:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-11 17:22 ` James Bottomley
2025-07-14 6:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-07-14 10:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 11:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-14 11:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 11:59 ` Greg KH
2025-07-14 12:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 12:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 13:26 ` Greg KH
2025-07-14 13:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 13:56 ` Greg KH
2025-07-14 14:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-14 13:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2025-07-14 12:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-15 7:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-15 9:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-09 21:25 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] unwind deferred: Introduce unwind_user_trace_cached Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-07-11 7:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-09 21:25 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] unwind: Rename unwind_stacktrace to unwind_user_stacktrace Mathieu Desnoyers
2025-07-09 21:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-10 21:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-09 21:25 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] unwind: Introduce unwind user entry type Mathieu Desnoyers
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