From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prime.zeng@huawei.com,
linuxarm@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: export vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat()
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:15:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201126091537.GA21957@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <696f0e06-4f4d-0a61-6e13-f5af433594bf@hisilicon.com>
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 05:08:26PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> > And why would you want to use them in kernel module? Please explain
> > that in the patch that exports them, and please send that patch in the
> > same series as the patches adding the users.
>
> we're using it in the modules for testing our crypto driver on our CI system.
> is it mandatory to upstream it if we want to use this function?
Yes. And chances are that you do not actaully need these functions
either, but to suggest a better placement I need to actually see the
code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-26 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-26 7:15 [PATCH] fs: export vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat() Yicong Yang
2020-11-26 7:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-26 9:08 ` Yicong Yang
2020-11-26 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-11-26 9:48 ` Yicong Yang
2020-11-26 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-26 10:44 ` Yicong Yang
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