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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	"linux-block\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] blk-trace update vs API stability
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:17:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49d1g2ycb5.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62463a62-2dcb-639c-364c-3cc8b50628d2@suse.de> (Hannes Reinecke's message of "Wed, 4 Jan 2017 09:49:33 +0100")

Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> writes:

> At LSF I'd like to discuss
> - Do we consider blktrace (and any other tracepoint in eg SCSI) as a
> stable API?

I don't have a strong opinion on this.

> - How do we go about modifying blktrace?

Blktrace has a version number associated with trace events.  Bump the
version for non-backward-compatible changes.

> - Is this even desired?

Yes.

Cheers,
Jeff

      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-04 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-04  8:49 [LSF/MM TOPIC] blk-trace update vs API stability Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-04 17:17 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]

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