Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:37:41 -0300 | From | Bruno Meneguele <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "kernel/printk: add kmsg SEEK_CUR handling" |
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:32:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:10 AM Bruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Although both options are pretty fine by me too, I "fear" (not really) > > we can end up stacking special behavior interfaces, forcing userspace to > > keep a "table of special case files". Personally, I prefer to return > > something _valid_ to userspace rather than _fail_ with special meaning. > > Well, what's even worse if user space has to handle two different > things just because behavior changed in different kernels.. > > So at some point "odd behavior" is much better than "odd behavior in > two different ways"..
Really well pointed!
Ok, +1 for doc-only patch it is :).
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