Re: [PATCH] proc: move the adding option Ngid to the end of proc/PID/status

Tejun Heo
2015-04-17T03:26:22Z

Hello,

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Wang, Xiaoming
<xiaoming.wang@intel.com> wrote:
> I am not sure exactly which kernel introduced this Ngid.
> I check the git and found it added in
> commit e29cf08b05dc0b8151d65704d96d525a9e179a6b

git describe --contains says 3.13 and it's about 1.5 years ago.

> And this change has destroyed the order already.
> Moving the adding option Ngid to the end of proc/PID/status
> is to keep order .

There isn't any assurance that changing the order won't break a
different set of programs which make different ordering assumptions.
The new order is already out there. This isn't a legal dispute where
the original owner is "right".

--
tejun