From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: diegocg@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/13] Filesystem in Userspace
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:14:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411210314.59537.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CVfgb-0007Ze-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
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On Sünndag 21 November 2004 01:34, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > If something it's in mainline "kernel version 2.6.56" is enought to describe
> > what code people are running.
>
> It's not for people, but for the library. It's the version of the
> userspace-kernel interface.
>
But once it is integrated, you can no longer make incompatible changes to
the API. You only need to know the difference between each API version
prior to the inclusion and the final version.
If the API gets extended later, any user should be able to deal with the
extension failing on older kernels.
Arnd <><
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-21 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-20 23:09 [PATCH 3/13] Filesystem in Userspace Miklos Szeredi
2004-11-20 23:37 ` Diego Calleja
2004-11-21 0:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2004-11-21 2:14 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2004-11-21 7:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
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