On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 11:28 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > FWIW, my objections regarding the calling conventions are still there. So I'm happy to further change the calling conventions, but by now _that_ part is most definitely a "not this merge window". The need for that ternary state is still there. It might go away in the future, but I think that's literally that: a future cleanup. Not really related to the problem at hand. Linus