On Tue, Jan 31 2023, brian m. carlson wrote: > Since then, I've been very opposed to us guaranteeing output format > consistency without explicitly doing so. I had sent some patches before > that I don't think ever got picked up that documented this explicitly. > I very much don't want people to come to rely on our behaviour unless we > explicitly guarantee it. FWIW I think the reason that didn't get picked up (I went back and read the discussion) is that there was some feedback on the v1, [1] suggested (at least to me) that you'd re-roll it, but that re-roll never seems to have made it to the list. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YD7aDwX%2FaiRN0GZs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/