Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:26:08 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: move the adding option Ngid to the end of proc/PID/status | From | Tejun Heo <> |
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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
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