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		matja 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel "accommodate" in this instance would have been accomplished by doing nothing. The Linux kernel developers actively made this change.

mnau 4 months ago [–]

Doing "nothing" in this case seems to be leaving technical debt in a code.

I am not kernel developer, but less exposed API/functions is nearly always better.

The removed comment of function even starts with: Careful: __kernel_fpu_begin/end() must be called with

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