From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 26 23:41: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C048137B401; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A6343EAF; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAR7espk054734; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:40:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:40:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021127.004023.92153958.imp@bsdimp.com> To: julian@elischer.org Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABIs and 5.x branch: freeze kernel module ABI at 5.0 or 5.1? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <20021127.002657.21921523.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Julian Elischer writes: : which is why I think we should reserve some fields now... How about a 'strawman patch' that can be evaluated? Simply stating that we should add some fields is like being for motherhood and apple pie. You can't argue with it, but at the same time women die in childbirth and too much apple pie can cause obesity. What's good in the abstract might be less good in the concrete in a few edge cases... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message