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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:31:34PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> I thought about doing that, the problem is it becomes an ABI break for
> existing users which I really didn't want to do again. If it
> ends up being the last thing we do before moving out of staging,
> I'd consider doing it.

This is staging code, so any existing users by defintion do not matter.
Let's not drag Linux development down over this.