Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I suspect that this gets some complaining off our back, but I *also* > suspect that people will actually end up really screwing themselves with > something like this and then blaming us and causing a huge pain down the > line when we've supported this and people want "extended semantics" that > are no longer clean. > > But I'm not sure how valid an argument that really is. I do happen to > believe in the "give them rope" philosophy. I think you can probably screw > yourself royally with this, but hey, anybody who does that only has > himself to blame ... That's exactly my argument when I had an exchange with Nico on this thread. I haven't decided if I want to make them (I sent out a replacement patch for the tip one, and added another one) merged in 'next' yet for that exact reason. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html