Re: [PATCH] workqueue: export apply_workqueue_attrs()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:52:09AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Lustre is a widely used cluster filesystem which is currently
> out-of-tree, but work is underway to make it ready for upstream
> submission.
> 
> Lustre needs apply_workqueue_attrs(), and for this reason that function
> was exported in Commit 6106c0f82481 ("staging: lustre: lnet: convert
> selftest to use workqueues").

None of this matters.  We don't export unused symbols, period.