Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261745AbUKUCVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:21:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261746AbUKUCVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:21:20 -0500 Received: from natnoddy.rzone.de ([81.169.145.166]:42956 "EHLO natnoddy.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261745AbUKUCVQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:21:16 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Miklos Szeredi Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/13] Filesystem in Userspace Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:14:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: diegocg@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20041121003755.3342a1cb.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_jo/nB3xv9iXxToz"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411210314.59537.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 42 --Boundary-02=_jo/nB3xv9iXxToz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On S=FCnndag 21 November 2004 01:34, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > If something it's in mainline "kernel version 2.6.56" is enought to des= cribe > > what code people are running. >=20 > It's not for people, but for the library. =A0It's the version of the > userspace-kernel interface. >=20 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 <>< --Boundary-02=_jo/nB3xv9iXxToz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBn/oj5t5GS2LDRf4RAiUPAJ48t2akOPHlBxtOlqokWR5oqQVQOQCgkW2E 9AsNR6Tbk5yFj3Ca6nBQzyc= =WB2J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_jo/nB3xv9iXxToz-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/