Re: [PATCH, 3.7-rc7, RESEND] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocateUAPI

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 20:16:36 EST



* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, the problem is that the thing is not just a) wrong, but b)
> only made it in through sneaky ways.

People disagree with a), and b) only really matters if a) is
true.

You never gave a technical reason for why protecting against
future ABI clashes is 'wrong'. It looks like a marginally
useful, practical patch to me.

Thanks,

Ingo
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