Hello, On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Wang, Xiaoming <xiaoming.w...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/