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
