Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 22, 2007, 06:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7is5rl7v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704212243080.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> I suspect that this gets some complaining off our back, but I *also* 
> suspect that people will actually end up really screwing themselves with 
> something like this and then blaming us and causing a huge pain down the 
> line when we've supported this and people want "extended semantics" that 
> are no longer clean.
>
> But I'm not sure how valid an argument that really is. I do happen to 
> believe in the "give them rope" philosophy. I think you can probably screw 
> yourself royally with this, but hey, anybody who does that only has 
> himself to blame ...

That's exactly my argument when I had an exchange with Nico on this thread. I haven't decided if I want to make them (I sent out a replacement patch for the tip one, and added another one) merged in 'next' yet for that exact reason.