From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_open
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:12:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abqyv0DiT0LFUU4v@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878qbq9uau.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 12:37:13PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:33:57PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:09:15AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>>>> + * since-version: 1.0
>>>
>>>I think since older versions :)
>>
>> Right. I guess that in my mind 1.0 was the first official "release". I'll
>> update it to 0.01.
>
>That kind of raises the question of just what since-version means. The
>version-0.01 (or 1.0) version of open() surely didn't do everything
>described in this specification. So it's saying that some version of
>the system call has existed since then?
You know, I'm not entierly sure what the definition should be here.
I stole this from man pages where they indicate at which version the API was
introduced in. I'm not sure if it really adds any value.
Any objections to just dropping it?
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 15:09 [PATCH 0/9] Kernel API Specification Framework Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework Sasha Levin
2026-03-17 17:49 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-18 6:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-18 14:53 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 14:30 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 16:50 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-18 14:32 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 16:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel " Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:27 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 5/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_open Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:42 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-17 18:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-18 14:12 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-03-18 14:16 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 6/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_close Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:46 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:55 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_read Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 8/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_write Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 9/9] kernel/api: add runtime verification selftest Sasha Levin
2026-03-14 18:18 ` [PATCH 0/9] Kernel API Specification Framework Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-14 22:44 ` David Laight
2026-03-15 6:46 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-15 6:36 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 6:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-18 14:14 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-16 7:05 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2026-03-16 22:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-16 23:29 ` Sasha Levin
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