On 09/05/2020 18:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 02:18:37PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> >> >> 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, > > I've been hoping for the sg_buf helpers to land first, as they need > backporting and would conflict. Do you urgently need the series? Any progress with sg_buf helpers stuff? Thanks, -- Alexey
