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charset="us-ascii" On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 02:38:38PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: > > I have pending comments on patch 7: > > If you're so hell-bent on doing your improvements on-top or aside of them, you > take his patch, add your stuff ontop or rewrite it, test it and then you send > it out and say why yours is better. > > Then the maintainer decides. > > There's no need to debate ad absurdum - you simply offer your idea and the > maintainer decides which one is better. As it has always been done. Or, the maintainer says "huh!?" and goes with option C. Why take a string in the first place? Just use '-1' as "max/auto".