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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 10:13:39 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] capability: add cap_isidentical
To:     Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc:     Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
        paul@paul-moore.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:29=E2=80=AFPM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> That said, the old code was worse. The only redeeming feature of the
> old code was that "nobody has touched it in ages", so it was at least
> stable.

Bah. I've walked through that patch something like ten times now, and
decided that there's no way it breaks anything. Famous last words.

It also means that I don't want to look at that ugly old code when I
have the fix for it all, so I just moved it over from my experimental
tree to the main tree, since it's still the merge window.

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi, or something.

                 Linus