Re: [PATCH 5/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_open

Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-17T18:37:15Z

Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:33:57PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:09:15AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:

>>> + * since-version: 1.0
>>
>>I think since older versions :)
>
> Right. I guess that in my mind 1.0 was the first official "release". I'll
> update it to 0.01.

That kind of raises the question of just what since-version means. The
version-0.01 (or 1.0) version of open() surely didn't do everything
described in this specification. So it's saying that some version of
the system call has existed since then?

Thanks,

jon