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

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Aug 2 19:55:00 GMT 2019


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.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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