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

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Aug 6 20:35:00 GMT 2019


On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> Just to be clear I have no sustained objection to this change, but also
> no strong opinion one way or the other.

I am also not making a sustained objection here, just stating the general 
(rebuttable) presumption that a symbol exported at a public symbol version 
in a release should be kept even if it was a mistake to export it, in the 
absence of strong evidence that removing it is safe.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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