Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

On 03/09/2011 15:01, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Wed Mar 09 2011 at 13:45:37 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:14 PM, matthew green wrote:
> >
> > > > Module Name:    src
> > > > Committed By:   pooka
> > > > Date:           Wed Mar  9 19:02:04 UTC 2011
> > > >
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > >         src/sys/sys: param.h
> > > >
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > Bump version for new quota code -- even if ABIs didn't change, it's
> > > > still a major feature.
> > > we haven't done this in the past and now i have to rebuild tools and
> > > my module dirs are out of date again.
> > Sigh.  param.h is not supposed to reflect features changes only ABI
> > incompatibilities.
> are you worried we going to run out of numbers tomorrow?
>
> How else should one know the new quotactl is present?  running awk on
> the headers?  i could understand whineage if we had the ever-elusive
> stable kernel ABI, but then we'd have some other method of conveying
> that information, right?

You can 'piggy back' it on the next real bump.  There will be a small 
period of time where the feature is, in fact, on the system, but this 
will likely give you sufficient fidelity to know for sure.  After all, 
since this was a separate commit, the window already existed...

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