On 17/04/2020 17:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:21:37PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> And the fact they were exported leaves possibility that there is a >> driver somewhere relying on these symbols or distro kernel won't build >> because the symbol disappeared from exports (I do not know what KABI >> guarantees or if mainline kernel cares). > > We absolutely do not care. In fact for abuses of APIs that drivers > should not use we almost care to make them private and break people > abusing them. ok :) >> I do not care in particular but >> some might, a line separated with empty lines in the commit log would do. > > I'll add a blurb for the next version. Has it gone anywhere? Thanks, -- Alexey