Re: [lttng-dev] Perf ABI (was: Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: exporttask_prio to GPL modules)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Jan 12 2012 - 10:59:12 EST


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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