In the context of Linus stance that the kernel must never, ever break userland, I find it strange that he has not slapped the change of a function to GPL-only callers as incorrect and reverted it.
You have a policy that you can't break users' programs, but borking their whole file-system is fine? Keep feeding end-users fears of open source petty feuds making people miserable. That works.
You have a policy that you can't break users' programs, but borking their whole file-system is fine? Keep feeding end-users fears of open source petty feuds making people miserable. That works.