Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753382AbZFKQ4e (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:56:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751299AbZFKQ41 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:56:27 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:57454 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265AbZFKQ40 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:56:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux From: Peter Zijlstra To: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20090611165226.GV8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20090611160329.GA3366@elte.hu> <20090611161714.GA5008@infradead.org> <20090611165226.GV8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:56:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1244739378.6691.540.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 544 Lines: 13 On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 17:52 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Do you consider "put into tools/" as permission to change interface at will? > More to the point, do the authors of that stuff consider it as such? No, once a kernel with this syscall gets released we most certainly intend to maintain its ABI. -- 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/