Re: x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jan 11 2019 - 00:41:05 EST


On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 06:04:07AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant. Sun explicitly did not
> > want their code to work on Linux, so why would we do extra work to get
> > their code to work properly?
>
> ZoL facilitates seamless r/w cross-mounting with macOS, something no
> other filesystem allows, and that feature is critical for me to work
> on Linux drivers for Mac hardware. Please don't make life harder than
> necessary for developers like me. Your "extra work" argument seems
> disingenuous to me, Sebastian's patch is causing extra work for
> ZFS developers, not the kernel community. The maintenance burden
> for the kernel community to retain the export is zero.

Sorry, no, we do not keep symbols exported for no in-kernel users.

greg k-h