On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > I asked for this simply because it was not exported historically. In > general I want to establish explicit export-type criteria so the > community can spend less time debating when to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL > [1]. > > The thought in this instance is that it is not historically exported > to modules and it is safer from a maintenance perspective to start > with GPL-only for new symbols in case we don't want to maintain that > interface long-term for out-of-tree modules. > > Yes, we always reserve the right to remove / change interfaces > regardless of the export type, but history has shown that external > pressure to keep an interface stable (contrary to > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst) tends to be less for > GPL-only exports. Fully agreed. In the end the decision is with the MM maintainers, though, although I'd prefer to keep it as in this series.
