On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 12:39 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > BTW, since these patches would be much easier to backport than any unification > work, I think the right thing to do would be to have further unification done on > top of them. Ack. I'm not NAKing the patches, I was just hoping that we also have some way forward. So "fix the issues, then unify" sounds like the right thing to do to me. Linus