From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A324B34CF9 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752475172; cv=none; b=RQX2uXs2zRK3jKMsGhZCnz+78/5AeVbuHWDE2IAQ1Y9g/J+3n8ITFYgj2tTQ/ity0NKtnDcLbm8tjunYW0e6G0VTtywH3R1BVUSSk/STXlNE75Y+/Rh56Hdpl8NuHyexf3OOvFm5shkRAYw4GrHc5gEkJ/ERgqRiH4HpYLJYb6o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752475172; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/qBF0GE4Lcy3zF7EUWSuwpA3ogCcRv/mhkmg9bSDtlU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=aduZanU0l1YGu8/zL6Vh9uxVqeJAhdlXNtQ0ox0OULL5fn3miUugdlwT0+SPYW0DPAeBGxOypu6UZWltoolvaif0gokOr6d8oPb2co7ytYJ9jNlFHRoa3nmOAL+jQz4twf0apfCoZ7Ilsb8k4IsBelxHyT2pYO1uSLP77rcMd1I= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=yWg/g4nB; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="yWg/g4nB" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=kZ8LlmSE7LcHGOAYWwUYC/cT6/86+pnmlzQpORyjX3M=; b=yWg/g4nByiboNsUqlgmUuBnUZP BehCD9ccFK7DhnH8U/sLljRUgEGOBNOp33NyhPnFsjqKg3JIV39fjt8Kil1/5PC9xZUMpEVnDuqPQ 8jPJvBpBb8qRltlVGfLBK1I2F7vopGm0GMLNuzjjP0h239t/UJD0Yix+3WRd7oLCbGAdfiKkZEaSB f6RGpfTJI/4cBQI/5FviXKWrirCV7yV1fFtj3APhK4intMl2V48tmWo+kqnfU6Qm2t5VvgOwod3fZ JQUHG7m8FwIMlVTbklZHL9sk5/cD57HH7htBgUv17VffU4NPvHqug0ipTnG8HeUGMZc0VxS1Irx06 44rwFdsw==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ubCqX-00000001NaZ-1dL6; Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:39:29 +0000 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:39:29 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf , Masami Hiramatsu , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Thomas Gleixner , Andrii Nakryiko , Indu Bhagat , "Jose E. Marchesi" , Beau Belgrave , Jens Remus , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules Message-ID: References: <20250709212556.32777-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20250709212556.32777-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20250711065742.00d6668b@gandalf.local.home> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250711065742.00d6668b@gandalf.local.home> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 06:57:42AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I want to bring up this discussion. I understand there's a policy not to > add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() unless there's a current user of it in the kernel > proper. My question is, does this policy have to be draconian? Yes. Making exception for friends and family is like Austrian law enforcement and thus errodes the whole principle. If you think lttng is useful help ustreaming it.