[luke0016]

> What's going on here is that people on the internet are asking Greg K-H to do extra work and his reply is that he doesn't care to.

That really isn't "what's going on here." The "extra work" is changing one or two lines from containing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to EXPORT_SYMBOL and possibly moving them to a different place.

If you read through the email thread [1] linked in another comment, you'll see something completely different is being argued and discussed.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154689892914091&w=2