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Message-Id: <1244739378.6691.540.camel@laptop>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:56:18 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 17:52 +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> Do you consider "put into tools/" as permission to change interface at will?
> More to the point, do the authors of that stuff consider it as such?

No, once a kernel with this syscall gets released we most certainly
intend to maintain its ABI.

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