On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:53:05PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: > >>I will bump revision for stable/8 when merging, but I do not see much > >>reason to bump on HEAD right now. > > Many thanks. > > >Uhm I think we can survive without a bump in HEAD. For now we will > >need to keep our backward-compatibility patch anyway, and when the > >bump happens on stable/8 our sysctl comparison will identify 900039 as > >new ABI. > > We cannot survive without a bump in HEAD before 9.0 release, > but we do not need bump immediately. Right, the point is that you can just say 'do not use 9.0-current earlier then r223966', and check only for >= 8025XX, where XX is the bump at MFC.
> > So far the condition for new API will be > > if ( (osreldate >= 900040) > || ((osreldate >= 803000) && (osreldate < 900000))) > > Of course, when MFC will bump revision, the 803000 constant > will change (probably to 802509). > > Petr
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