linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] General notification queue and key notifications

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Date:   Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:03:51 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        dray@...hat.com, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        andres@...razel.de,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] General notification queue and key notifications

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:47 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> If we have multiple uses, and one of them notices some problem that
> requires any ABI changes, but the other one has already started using
> it, we'll have more problems.

Ok, it's merged in my tree, although I was somewhat unhappy about the
incomprehensible calling conventions of "get_pipe_info()". The random
second argument just makes no sense when you read the code, it would
have probably been better as a helper function or #define to clarify
the whole "for_splice" thing.

But let's see how it works and what actually happens.

               Linus