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Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20240403101422.GA7285@lst.de> References: <20240403101422.GA7285@lst.de> <20240403085918.GA1178@lst.de> <20240328163424.2781320-1-dhowells@redhat.com> <20240328163424.2781320-16-dhowells@redhat.com> <3235934.1712139047@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Christian Brauner , Jeff Layton , Gao Xiang , Dominique Martinet , Matthew Wilcox , Steve French , Marc Dionne , Paulo Alcantara , Shyam Prasad N , Tom Talpey , Eric Van Hensbergen , Ilya Dryomov , netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs@lists.linux.dev, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/26] mm: Export writeback_iter() Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3300437.1712141700.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:55:00 +0100 Message-ID: <3300438.1712141700@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.11.54.8 Christoph Hellwig 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 pe= ople > > should use writeback_iter() instead. w_c_p() is not marked GPL. Is i= t 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 sen= d a patch replace all of them with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()? David