From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>, Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>, Niket Agarwal <niketa@fb.com>,
Yann Collet <cyan@fb.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/9] lib: zstd: Add zstd compatibility wrapper
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:52:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201116165231.GA22834@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED61269-0F19-46EB-ACE3-C6D81E0A9136@fb.com>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 02:24:35PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> I think APIs change based on the needs of the project. We do this all the
> time in the kernel, and we don???t think twice about updating users of the
> API as needed.
We update kernel APIs when:
- we need additional functionality
- thew new API is clearly better than the old one
None of that seems to be the case here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-03 6:05 [GIT PULL][PATCH v5 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6 Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] lib: zstd: Add zstd compatibility wrapper Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 18:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-09 19:01 ` Chris Mason
2020-11-10 15:25 ` David Sterba
2020-11-10 19:33 ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-10 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-10 19:24 ` Chris Mason
2020-11-16 16:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-11-10 20:38 ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] lib: zstd: Add decompress_sources.h for decompress_unzstd Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] crypto: zstd: Switch to zstd-1.4.6 API Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] btrfs: zstd: Switch to the " Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 17:10 ` Josef Bacik
2020-11-06 18:36 ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] f2fs: " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] squashfs: " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] lib: unzstd: " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03 6:05 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] lib: zstd: Remove zstd compatibility wrapper Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 17:15 ` [GIT PULL][PATCH v5 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6 Josef Bacik
2020-11-06 18:51 ` Nick Terrell
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