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See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:05:45PM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote: > > > > On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:53 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > As you keep resend this I keep retelling you that should not do it. > > Please provide a proper Linux API, and switch to that. Versioned APIs > > have absolutely no business in the Linux kernel. > > The API is not versioned. We provide a stable ABI for a large section of our API, > and the parts that aren???t ABI stable don???t change in semantics, and undergo long > deprecation periods before being removed. > > The change of callers is a one-time change to transition from the existing API > in the kernel, which was never upstream's API, to upstream's API. Again, please transition it to a sane kernel API. We don't have an "upstream" in this case.