On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:27 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Alexei, > > On 1/13/22, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nack. > > It's part of api. We cannot change it. > > This is an RFC patchset, so there's no chance that it'll actually be > applied as-is, and hence there's no need for the strong hammer nack. > The point of "request for comments" is comments. Specifically here, > I'm searching for information on the ins and outs of *why* it might be > hard to change. How does userspace use this? Why must this 64-bit > number be unchanged? Why did you do things this way originally? Etc. > If you could provide a bit of background, we might be able to shake > out a solution somewhere in there. There is no problem with the code and nothing to be fixed.
