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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Chris Vandomelen <chrisv@b0rked.dhs.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 12:06:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011223120604.B19863@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0112221956280.23282-100000@b0rked.dhs.org> <22263.1009084221@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <22263.1009084221@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:10:21PM +1100

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:10:21PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> I'm glad somebody understands the code :).

There are two directions of binary compatibility: forwads and backwards.  
Your patch breaks forwards compatibility if used outside the main tree.  Try 
to understand this.

		-ben
-- 
Fish.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-23 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-22 11:28 [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing Keith Owens
2001-12-22 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 14:32   ` Keith Owens
2001-12-22 19:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-22 23:18   ` Keith Owens
2001-12-22 23:25     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-23  0:02       ` Keith Owens
2001-12-23  4:04       ` Chris Vandomelen
2001-12-23  5:10         ` Keith Owens
2001-12-23 17:06           ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2001-12-23 19:15             ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-24  1:01             ` Keith Owens
2001-12-24 16:52               ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 17:11                 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 17:06                   ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 17:34                     ` David Lang
2001-12-24 18:13                       ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 17:54                         ` David Lang
2001-12-24 18:23                           ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-26 16:22                           ` Riley Williams
2001-12-25  2:18                         ` Keith Owens
2001-12-25 10:00                           ` Russell King
2001-12-24 18:23                     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 18:16                       ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 19:05                         ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 19:31                           ` Russell King
2001-12-24 20:46                             ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 23:28                             ` Edgar Toernig
2001-12-24 23:43                               ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-12-22 20:51 ` Davide Libenzi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-22 11:35 Keith Owens

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