Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 06:27:24AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This has nothing to do with Mathieu being a friend. He's a long time Linux
> kernel contributor and has played a key role in developing a new feature
> that will help both perf and ftrace, but without the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(),
> LTTng can't use it. It's basically saying "thank you Mathieu for helping us
> with this new feature, now go F*** off!"

You don't have to be as explicit, but otherwise that's exactly how
it works.  No one gets a free ride just because they are nice and/or
contributed something.

The rest of your mail looks just as confused.