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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 09:59:20 +0100 From: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@...il.com> To: davem@...emloft.net Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: linkwatch: send change uevent on link changes On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:34 AM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > > From: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@...il.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.
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