On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:12:04 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Well, it's being used. I was thinking of dropping it if it was not. > > Let's keep it then. > > I think it should be dropped, only one user of the kernel is using it in > a legitimate way, which kind of implies it isn't needed. I'm thinking if it isn't hard to support then we can keep it (meaning that we already have to calculate the length anyway). But if it starts to complicate the code, then we should drop it. -- Steve