On 23.02.2017 07:23, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 05:29:41 +0000 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%netbsd.org@localhost> > Message-ID: <20170223052941.GA29472%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost> > > | Does this kind of change really require a version bump? > > That one didn't, but there was another checkin, 5 or 6 mins earlier, > which changed (added to) struct mdproc (on i386 and amd64 anyway), > and as that struct is included in struct proc, struct proc got bigger, > and that does require a version bump. > > However, another change, a few hours earlier, carried a note ... > I'm evaluating it from the osabi (pkgsrc term) point of view. I'm targeting LLDB for 7.99.62+. If the kernel bump approach is reserved for loadable kernel modules, I will follow this in future changes. > | Kernel bump delayed till introduction of PT_GETDBREGS/PT_SETDBREGS soon. > > and as best I can see, neither that change, nor the ones around it, > had any reason to require a bump. > > kre > > ps: kernel version bumps are good - we will soon approach 7.77.99 and at > that point, a branch of netbsd-8 is kind of forced! >
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