On 01/09 19:08, Robert Elz wrote: > Could someone who knows please explain the rules for the construction > of __NetBSD_Version__ for releases, what the sub-fields are, and how > they're actually used - and then perhaps actually put that information > into param.h ?
Well, I've made all of the 5.x __NetBSD_Version changes to date, so I guess I ought to speak up. Basically, I looked at 4.0.1 and saw that we didn't bump the version number for 4.0.1, and figured that was intentional. Maybe it was simply an omission. I don't recall checking 3.x. My thinking was that we didn't care much if the version number got bumped unless there was an API/ABI change. Given that line of reasoning, I don't know why I bumped it for 5.1 -- temporary insanity? In any case, if the consensus is that it should be bumped with every release, we can certainly do that in the future. Soren
