Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:04:35 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r198706 - head/sys/sys Message-ID: <20091102100435.GA67211@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20091101011212.GG1293@hoeg.nl> References: <200910311035.n9VAZfIb082932@svn.freebsd.org> <20091031.190353.-332187386.imp@bsdimp.com> <20091101011212.GG1293@hoeg.nl>
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On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:12:12AM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > No, we don't. All these fields are not used by drivers, just some old > version of the devfs code. I made sure struct cdevsw didn't change in > size, so there should be no API nor ABI conflicts. Surely it is an API change, but not an ABI change? Code that used to do: d.d_uid = 3; will no longer compile, but code that was comipled with the old version will still run. I understand that the assignment doesn't do anything useful, but I suppose there still could be code that does it? David.
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