[PATCH 15/26] mm: Export writeback_iter()

[David Howells]

Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:10:47AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > That depends.  You put a comment on write_cache_pages() saying that people
> > should use writeback_iter() instead.  w_c_p() is not marked GPL.  Is it your
> > intention to get rid of it?
> 
> Yes.  If you think you're not a derivate work of Linux you have no
> business using either one.

So why are we bothering with EXPORT_SYMBOL at all?  Why don't you just send a
patch replace all of them with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?

David