From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:23:50 -0700
> On 7/30/20 2:16 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:07 PM Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Hmmm.... which module would need this exactly ? > > None in tree unfortunately, and I doubt it would be published one day. > For consistency one could argue that given it used to be accessible, and > other symbols within net/ipv4/tcp.c are also exported, so this should > one be. Not going to hold that line of argumentation more than in this > email, if you object to it, that would be completely fine with me. > >> >> How come it took 3 years to discover this issue ? > > We just upgraded our downstream kernel from 4.9 to 5.4 and this is why > it took so long. We really can't do this, sorry.
