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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:37:41 -0300
From:   Bruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "kernel/printk: add kmsg SEEK_CUR handling"
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:32:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:10 AM Bruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com> wrot=
e:
> >
> > Although both options are pretty fine by me too, I "fear" (not really)
> > we can end up stacking special behavior interfaces, forcing userspace t=
o
> > keep a "table of special case files". Personally, I prefer to return
> > something _valid_ to userspace rather than _fail_ with special meaning.
>=20
> Well, what's even worse if user space has to handle two different
> things just because behavior changed in different kernels..
>=20
> So at some point "odd behavior" is much better than "odd behavior in
> two different ways"..

Really well pointed!

Ok, +1 for doc-only patch it is :).

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