From: Jouke Witteveen <j.wittev...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 09:59:20 +0100
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:34 AM David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> >> From: Jouke Witteveen <j.wittev...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 23:38:17 +0100 >> >> > Can you elaborate a bit? I may not be aware of the policy you have in >> > mind. >> >> When we have a user facing interface to do something, we don't create >> another one unless it is absolutely, positively, unavoidable. > > Obviously, if I would have known this I would not have gone through > the trouble of investigating and proposing this patch. It was an > honest attempt at making the kernel better. > Where could I have found this policy? I have looked on kernel.org/doc, > but couldn't find it. It is not formally documented but it is a concern we raise every time a duplicate piece of user facing functionality is proposed.
