linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: move the adding option Ngid to the end of proc/PID/status

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Message-ID: <20150424155059.GE24029@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:50:59 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	xiaoming.wang@...el.com,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: move the adding option Ngid to the end of
 proc/PID/status

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:32:26PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> There are 2 fields before Ngid and 35+ after Ngid. So the risk is not
> the same. Potentionally, Ngid addition broke almost every parser.

I don't get how we reach completely different conclusions from the
same observation.  This patch changes the offset for the 35+ fields
after Ngid in the current kernel instead of 4 something fields.  How
is that better?

-- 
tejun
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