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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: simplify ext4_sb_read_encoding regression
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On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 07:47:42AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We could do that, but it seems a bit ugly.  What prevents symbol_request
> from working properly for this case in your setup?

To anwer to myself - I guess we need something else than a plain
EXPORT_SYMBOL for everything that is used by
symbol_request.  Which would be a nice cleanly anyway - exports for
symbol_request aren't normal exports and should probably have a clear
marker just to stand out anyway.