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.
next prev parent 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
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2001-12-22 11:35 Keith Owens
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