Quoting Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>:

> Then you are now adding that "holiness." Which is ok, except your
> arguement came across as having the "new holiness" (VOP interface is for
> external uses only) as a pre-existing given. It obviously isn't, as at
> least Berkeley felt the existing mixing was fine. :-)

No, actually, it was widely known that the misuse of the interface was 
bad.  At
least Kirk and Keith were in favor of fixing it.

Please don't appeal to authorities you haven't even talked to.