From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13F847261A; Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750655433; cv=none; b=kYdhqwlcwOOk3A7BT3Xxu50DuRqZhObJr1Pl/zgezw+Sj7oreN5leTswLKP4eGSmYgek8eZpQ//dy0ezclX8zC/B086ZRqwvs+xkof0LNXYNz2+pC3W3xUB+RBuXJDSn2IAB+erccX9o81Q+pR1N5O0tjEI793K7zV7EGFVNQSM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750655433; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6kD9WA/msEBzQ4d/wDN+HUeMDVqZq/ihtwFg42v7DrM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FQiGJK+W3KzoHBL8IYabHlbdD6/iPo+krA0P1PAJzDT3FQKMe84a54wNGlC6qo0e4JhhoUrqt2fTv2fOAkV1ODPROfueVIeLUk2VSis01v48lfIG3MOLWlTNoRebBU6zR2A9Zkvs84+n9C0PYqlSTKv2EIzl3UdYJMhgmm8OIpY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=cRjlKDol; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="cRjlKDol" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=Q+FZE4gcDMJ91Suso80fBifZjwYA0+I+UV5JuTDpVJY=; b=cRjlKDol6p8bfT7LCAV7ePH45C XzsFZ4u8IxnhbMajrfYp5nNZbR4CWCfFxyffpS7dqjoW9hl78dzdMZBlr8HjSq4svF8i0I0M5vF9n a2Yg2pCHCsnI5q2RKJ4VzMgdOz872AyjMfNvnkDAXeUjiaz33n735oGKP4FsBoubQCjEfT7Yz9QKE fYFdxjAgy4YzJ6rGliJFWOcbOwaBVkbFA8VULB3VKxWfCSeDnPMWnhxJy5dAUO3WhmamOOcFUZ5ub B/+dsp8OyBPqNfUUPzbE5rQ9q9beKbDMA9WizieTKjMUafu54Pk2eLFpbjM/raA6du9grYILK9g1a j7Ze2uuw==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1uTZRl-00000001ao1-1EON; Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:10:21 +0000 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:10:21 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: alexjlzheng@gmail.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jinliang Zheng , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: fix the missing export of vfs_statx() and vfs_fstatat() Message-ID: References: <20250618121429.188696-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 05:51:55PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Well, we don't export symbols just because they might be useful. Usually we > require *in tree* users of the interface to export a symbol. You apparently > have an out of tree module that was using these functions and 09f1bde4017e > broke it. Keeping things out of tree is your choice but why should we care > and support you in working outside of a community? Yes, of course. I'm pretty annoyed that we get a lot of these silly exports, mostly from big companies in the android space. I'm not sure if this is elaborate trolling, or if their training about Linux development is really so spectacularly bad.