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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:05:45PM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote:
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>
> > On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:53 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > As you keep resend this I keep retelling you that should not do it.
> > Please provide a proper Linux API, and switch to that. Versioned APIs
> > have absolutely no business in the Linux kernel.
>
> The API is not versioned. We provide a stable ABI for a large section of our API,
> and the parts that aren???t ABI stable don???t change in semantics, and undergo long
> deprecation periods before being removed.
>
> The change of callers is a one-time change to transition from the existing API
> in the kernel, which was never upstream's API, to upstream's API.

Again, please transition it to a sane kernel API. We don't have an
"upstream" in this case.

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