On Monday, October 11th, 2021 at 09:51, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 07:49:44AM +0000, Simon Ser wrote: > > Have you heard about the kernel no-regression rule? Here, we can't enable a new > > feature because that would regress user-space which mis-uses the kernel uAPI. > > Then you can't enable the feature without an explicit opt-in from > userspace. This ain't rocket science. No, we can't have a "I_AM_NOT_BROKEN" ioctl for each and every uAPI mis-use. User-space detection has been determined to be the best course of action. > > If your reply wasn't aggressive, I don't know what it is. > > If there is one thing I find agressive it is your extreme passive > aggressive behavior. Come on. I'm just asking you to be civil, that's all. But that seems too much. * * * I guess I'll just inline these functions in the driver then, if a revert will be NACK'ed by you?
