From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 6 13: 1:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5DE37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C737643F85 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h26L1iA7040031; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:01:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:01:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030306.140129.14975742.imp@bsdimp.com> To: peterjeremy@optushome.com.au Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Smarter kernel modules? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030306191248.GD93350@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20030306075225.GB93350@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20030306.094104.08396502.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030306191248.GD93350@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030306191248.GD93350@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes: : That said, I feel that a single number (or variable name) is too : coarse and the "do I need to bump the version" decision is too fuzzy. : Unfortunately, I can't think of anything better that wouldn't incur : an unacceptable maintenance overhead. I want the decision to bump it to be "I can't make this change because it would cause me to have to bump this version." Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message