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Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Perf ABI (was: Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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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