Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> writes: > No. My interpretation of __FreeBSD_version is that the bump indicates > incompatible change in the interfaces.
...or the introduction of a new interface; see for instance r194210, where simon@ bumped it to mark a new OpenSSL version with new features. It is widely used in the ports tree to determine whether a particular patch should be applied. (actually, that's precisely the reason why __FreeBSD_version was introduced, and it lived in userland for a while before eivind@ moved it into the kernel in 1998) > Sometime it is used to mark the point where big changes hit the tree, > possibly not related to interface change. Bumps are cheap, better one too many than one too few. > Also, __FreeBSD_version denotes the kernel "version". No, it has been bumped for libc changes in the past. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
