Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 20:48:35 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Kernel API version -> param.h Message-ID: <19980505204835.09560@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19980504203155.41473@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 08:31:55PM %2B0200 References: <19980504203155.41473@follo.net>
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On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > We have a severe version headache for anybody maintaining drivers > outside the FreeBSD tree proper - there is no way for them to get the > version of the kernel tree they are compiling. At present, this lead > to a lot of driver authors testing __FreeBSD__ to find out what to > compile - which mean that the 3.0 kernel can't compile correctly on a > 2.2 system, and vice versa. > > I propose moving the API version from newvers.sh to param.h, a la the > following patch (which also fix a missing dependency for vers.c). > > Comments, please! So far I've received three positive and 0 negative comments. If somebody want to protest that this is the wrong solution, please do so in the next 24h. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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