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Re: [PATCH 2/2] linux: Make profil_counter a compat_symbol (BZ#17726)

On 8/2/19 3:55 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:


So do you think we can remove them or should we keep them? I do think
we should just remove these accidental bleeding symbols.


I think there is a strong presumption in favour of keeping symbols that
were public in a (2.1 or later, i.e. after the introduction of symbol
versioning) release, in the absence of clear evidence that the symbol
would never have been usable.


Agreed. Compat is safe enough.

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Cheers,
Carlos.
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