On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:20:10 -0800 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My hesitation would be drastically reduced if there was a plan to > avoid dangling unconsumed symbols and functionality. Specifically one > or more of the following suggestions: > > * EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL on all exports to avoid a growing liability > surface for out-of-tree consumers to come grumble at us when we > continue to refactor the kernel as we are wont to do. The existing patches use EXPORT_SYMBOL() so that's a sticking point. Jerome, what would happen is we made these EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()? > * A commitment to consume newly exported symbols in the same merge > window, or the following merge window. When that goal is missed revert > the functionality until such time that it can be consumed, or > otherwise abandoned. It sounds like we can tick this box. > * No new symbol exports and functionality while existing symbols go unconsumed. Unsure about this one?
