On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 07:42:21AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:02 AM Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 10:47:07AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 6:36 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > > > x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}() > > > > > > > > to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: > > > > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > > Why? ISTM the only possible effect is to break out-of-tree modules. > > > I have no objection to breaking such modules if we need to, but, in > > > this case, I don't see the benefit. > > > > The "benefit" is that people keep complaining that newer kernels do not > > have this api for some reason and that it is a "regression", which > > completely does not understand how the kernel handles internal apis. > > I suppose that's a reasonable point. But maybe we should actually > give these modules a credible alternative first? I just send a patch.
That's your call, it's your code :) thanks, greg k-h
