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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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