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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 20:48:35 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Kernel API version -> param.h
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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.

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