Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 16:13:46 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 13:07 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 5/16/2012 1:04 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > >> > >> Seriously though. What's your take on changing the kernel that will > >> break an older distro. Obviously, this change is too early to apply. But > >> because an old distro has one app that will break if we make a change in > >> the kernel, is that enough to keep that change out? > > > > I suspect that powertop is enough of a developer thing that if that's > > the only thing that breaks, we don't have to worry too much. > > > > I don't want to break *everybody*, so new distro's should be > > up-to-date. But breaking something like a F14-15 timeframe distro or > > something staid like a SLES (or "Debian Stale" or whatever they call > > that thing that only takes crazy-old binaries)? It's fine. We don't > > want to *rush* into it, but no, if those distros are basically not > > updating, we can't care about them forever for something like > > powertop. > > agreed. > > I would say something like "6 months" (e.g. 3.6); anybody who's likely > to update anything will have done the powertop upgrade from his distro > by then, and anybody who isn't isn't going to update the kernel either. >
Thanks for the clarification. I'll put the patch in my 3.6 or 3.7 queue.
-- Steve
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