* Nicholas Miell (nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:24 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:* Nicholas Miell (nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:Not off the top of my head, but I did steal the idea from the ext2/3/4
The whole point of compat and incompat flags is that it allows newI see. Thanks for the explanation. Then the expedited flag should
applications to run on old kernels and either work or fail as
appropriate, depending on whether the new features they're using must be
implemented or can be silently ignored.
clearly be part of the mandatory flags.
Can you point me to other system calls that are doing this ?
Thanks,
Mathieu
disk format.
Sounds a bit over-engineered to me for system calls, but who knows if we
eventually have to extend sys_membarrier(). This involves that, right
now, I'd have to add a header to include/linux to define these flags.
Also, "int expedited" is a bit clearer, but less flexible, than "int
flags". Anyone else have comments about this ?