Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:41:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Remove compat vdso support | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote: > > Is it possible to calm down and get a more technical discussion rather > than blaming and treats not to accepting patches?
I'm just asking for an upside to the changes, and fighting changing things "just because".
32-bit is not dead in the sense that it doesn't exist any more, but it *is* dead in the sense that there is absolutely zero point in treating it as a developing platform. That was very clearly also the context in which I said "dead, dead, dead", I was objecting to trying to future-proof things that are not worth future-proofing.
The VDSO code has worked for us for a long time, and I'm upset and annoyed that people want to do "improvements" to it that are not improvements at all. They are ugly (just look at that remap_pfn_range() call in you patch - why?), and they cause problems, and instead of people saying "ok, fix the source of the problem", people are running around like headless chicken and saying "ok, let's work around all these problems".
WHY?
Nobody has even explained why we want this at all, and why we want this headache. Nobody has explained why the solution is not to "just don't do that then". Instead, people are piling up *more* complexity because the patch had a problem.
That's a technical issue, Stefani. And the threat to not apply patches is a technical solution, and I'm getting more and more convinced is the *right* technical solution.
And when Fengguang's automatic bug tester found the problem, YOU STARTED ARGUING WITH HIM. Christ, well *excuuse* me for being fed up with this pointless discussion.
Linus
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