Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Sep 08 2023 - 04:35:47 EST


On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 08:07:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > And it's over 130 symbols, attached, I'll figure out a way to script
> > this...
>
> Eww. Sorry for missing this, and I suspect it really should be
> entirely reworked in the future. But for now the scripting sounds
> right. Let me know if you'd done anything, otherwise I can look into
> it this afternoon Chilean time.

.. and it turns out dvb_attach has already been deprecated for 5 years
time, it's just that it still has all these users around.