Comment by shawnz

Sometimes in life we do things even though we are not explicitly obligated to do them. Nobody is asking for ZFS to get explicitly maintained support in the Linux kernel. They are simply asking for this one small inconsequential change to be reverted just this one time, since it would literally be no harm to the kernel developers to do so, and it would provide substantial benefits to any user wanting to use ZFS. Furthermore the amount of time that kernel developers have spent arguing in favour of this change has been significantly greater than the time it would have taken to just revert it.

> Again, that symbol was deprecated for well over a decade.

But not the GPL equivalent of the symbol. That symbol is not deprecated.