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Marchesi" , Beau Belgrave , Jens Remus , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules Message-ID: References: <20250709212556.32777-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20250709212556.32777-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20250711065742.00d6668b@gandalf.local.home> <20250714062724.6febd9fb@gandalf.local.home> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250714062724.6febd9fb@gandalf.local.home> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 06:27:24AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > This has nothing to do with Mathieu being a friend. He's a long time Linux > kernel contributor and has played a key role in developing a new feature > that will help both perf and ftrace, but without the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), > LTTng can't use it. It's basically saying "thank you Mathieu for helping us > with this new feature, now go F*** off!" You don't have to be as explicit, but otherwise that's exactly how it works. No one gets a free ride just because they are nice and/or contributed something. The rest of your mail looks just as confused.