On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:34 AM David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > > From: Jouke Witteveen <j.wittev...@gmail.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.
