On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 08:35:33PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
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.
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.
Again, in this domain, the design is sound. So much so that everyone
who works in that area moved toward it (KDE, Qt, Go, etc.) We might not
think it makes sense, and it did take me a while to wrap my head around
it, but to call it "crap" is unfair, sorry.
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