linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2 -tip] sched: Clean unused fields from struct rq

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:51:48 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Cc:	Luis Henriques <henrix@...o.pt>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -tip] sched: Clean unused fields from struct rq

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:33 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:

> > I know that changes in ABI shall not break anything, but just increasing the
> > version number will really solve the issue?  Will userspace care for this?
> > On the other hand, just writting 0s does not sound interesting either...
> >
> >   
> Hi Luis,
>   My app does check the version number, so bumping it is probably the
> best solution.   Be sure to keep me in the loop about whether this patch
> gets merged and I will be sure to update it to handle the new version.

Ah, right, you did say something :-)

/me says to himself, read more mail before answering..

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