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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:26:55 -0500

> So as far as I can tell you are advocating for a change to support a
> driver doing something that is completely pointless.  So no let's not
> export this symbol.  Please fix the driver to do something less
> pointless instead.

FLorian explained his reasoning for doing what he is doing in this
specific driver and it made sense to me.