linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6

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Message-ID: <20200923055716.GA10796@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 06:57:16 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        squashfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...com>,
        Niket Agarwal <niketa@...com>, Yann Collet <cyan@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6

FYI, as mentioned last time:  clear NAK for letting these bad APIs
slip into the overall kernel code.  Please provide proper kernel style
wrappers to avoid these kinds of updates and in the future just change
APIs on an as-needed basis.