+++ Christoph Hellwig [02/02/21 13:13 +0100]:

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Hi all,

this series removes support for long term unused export types and
cleans up various loose ends in the module loader.

Changes since v2:
- clean up klp_find_object_symbol a bit
- remove the now unused module_assert_mutex helper

Changes since v1:
- move struct symsearch to module.c
- rework drm to not call find_module at all
- allow RCU-sched locking for find_module
- keep find_module as a public API instead of module_loaded
- update a few comments and commit logs

Thanks Christoph for cleaning up all that aged cruft, and thanks everyone
for the reviews.

I was curious about EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL
variants, and found that most of that stuff was introduced between
2006 - 2008. All the of the unused symbols were removed and gpl future
symbols were converted to gpl quite a long time ago, and I don't
believe these export types have been used ever since. So I
think it's safe to retire those export types now.