Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the amdgpu tree

[Simon Ser]

On Monday, October 11th, 2021 at 09:33, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 06:07:33PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
>
> > Would it be reasonable to re-export get_mm_exe_file? amdgpu uses it here:
> >
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/commit/0d4da915c7098eca2aa6f559f42e33b5e9c7c5e8
>
> Seriously? No, it obviously not. Unexporting it is important to catch
> utter crap like in that commit which should have never made it into a
> maintainer tree.

I don't understand. Can you elaborate why you think this commit is
"utter crap"?

I'd also appreciate if you could be a bit less aggressive. There's
nothing "obvious" about this from my point of view.