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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.

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com>, Yann Collet <cyan@fb.com>,
	Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>, Niket Agarwal <niketa@fb.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [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.


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-16 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ 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 ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] lib: zstd: Add zstd compatibility wrapper Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 18:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-06 18:38     ` [f2fs-dev] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-09 19:01     ` Chris Mason
2020-11-09 19:01       ` [f2fs-dev] " Chris Mason via Linux-f2fs-devel
2020-11-10 15:25       ` David Sterba
2020-11-10 15:25         ` [f2fs-dev] " David Sterba
2020-11-10 19:33         ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-10 19:33           ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell via Linux-f2fs-devel
2020-11-10 18:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-10 18:39         ` [f2fs-dev] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-10 19:24         ` Chris Mason
2020-11-10 19:24           ` [f2fs-dev] " Chris Mason via Linux-f2fs-devel
2020-11-16 16:52           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-11-16 16:52             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-10 20:38         ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-10 20:38           ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell via Linux-f2fs-devel
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   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5 3/9] lib: zstd: Upgrade to latest upstream zstd version 1.4.6 Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-13  9:36   ` kernel test robot
2020-11-13  9:36     ` kernel test robot
2020-11-13  9:36   ` [PATCH] lib: zstd: fix semicolon.cocci warnings kernel test robot
2020-11-13  9:36     ` kernel test robot
2020-11-13  9:36     ` [f2fs-dev] " kernel test robot
2020-11-14 23:06   ` [PATCH v5 3/9] lib: zstd: Upgrade to latest upstream zstd version 1.4.6 kernel test robot
2020-11-14 23:06     ` kernel test robot
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   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] btrfs: zstd: Switch to the " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 17:10   ` Josef Bacik
2020-11-06 17:10     ` [f2fs-dev] " Josef Bacik
2020-11-06 18:36     ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 18:36       ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell via Linux-f2fs-devel
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] f2fs: " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] squashfs: " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] lib: unzstd: " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] lib: zstd: Remove zstd compatibility wrapper Nick Terrell
2020-11-03  6:05   ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 17:15 ` [GIT PULL][PATCH v5 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6 Josef Bacik
2020-11-06 17:15   ` [f2fs-dev] " Josef Bacik
2020-11-06 18:51   ` Nick Terrell
2020-11-06 18:51     ` [f2fs-dev] " Nick Terrell via Linux-f2fs-devel

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