On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 09:23:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > I agree. You've sent a pull request for an unfortunate design. I > > don't think that unfortunate design belongs in the kernel. If it says > > in userspace, then user programmers could potentially fix it some day. > > You might not like the design, but it is a valid design. Again, we > don't refuse to support hardware that is designed badly. Or support > protocols we don't necessarily like, that's not the job of a kernel or > operating system.
Bullshit. The problem you seem to deliberately ignore is that once it's in the kernel, it's impossible to eradicate. It's not just a crap design, it's a crap design you are taking in as-is. And no, "the sole consumer of that API knows better, so bend over" is not a good idea. We have shitloads of examples when single-consumer APIs turned into screaming horrors; taking that in over the objections to API design, merely on "they do it that way, who the hell we are to say they are wrong?" is insane. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
