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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:14:22 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/26] mm: Export writeback_iter()
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:10:47AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> That depends.  You put a comment on write_cache_pages() saying that people
> should use writeback_iter() instead.  w_c_p() is not marked GPL.  Is it your
> intention to get rid of it?

Yes.  If you think you're not a derivate work of Linux you have no
business using either one.