On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 05:07:13PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 11:03:22PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:47:06 +0200 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:32:42PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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But whatever. I mean - hopefully there aren't any conflicts in the ~50
networking files you touch. I just wish that people didn't pipe up with
the tree wide changes right after the merge window. Feels like the
worst possible timing.  

Oh, if the timing is what makes this especially worrisome, I have
no qualms about rebasing much later, and reposting this series then.
I'll do that.

Cool, thanks! I promise to not be grumpy if you repost around rc6 :)

One way of making things less painful for the stable branch and for
the upstream branch is to *add* new helpers instead of playing
replacement games like s/prandom_u32_max/get_random_u32_below/.  This
is what causes the patch conflict problems.

One advantage of at least adding the new functions to the stable
branches, even if we don't do the wholesale replacement, is that it

That's a good idea. I'll also save the removal commit, anyhow, for a
separate thing at the end of 6.2 rc1, so that -next doesn't have issues
either.  That's how things wound up going down for the first tranche of
these, and that worked well.

Jason

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