linux-kernel - Re: [lttng-dev] Perf ABI (was: Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task

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Message-ID: <1326383950.7642.86.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:59:10 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	lttng-dev@...ts.lttng.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Perf ABI (was: Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export
 task_prio to GPL modules)

On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 10:53 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> That's a stretch in calling version numbers. All but the madvise case
> above are how many parameters it takes, not really a "version" number.
> 
> It's adding a new syscall, not updating a version and then deprecating
> the old one. As I believe all the above are still supported.
> 

Actually, the madvise1() isn't supported. But this just shows that it
has nothing to do with a version number. What version is madvise()?

-- Steve


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