Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:46:16 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ed@80386.nl Cc: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r198706 - head/sys/sys Message-ID: <20091102.084616.-1258100553.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20091102102404.GP1293@hoeg.nl> References: <20091101011212.GG1293@hoeg.nl> <20091102100435.GA67211@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20091102102404.GP1293@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:
: Hello David,
:
: * David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
: > 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?
:
: Yes, in theory there could be pieces of code that do that, but keep in
: mind that d_uid was never meant to be used by device drivers. It was
: used by devfs internally, before cdevpriv existed.
:
: Looking at the SVN logs, it was introduced in March 2005, but it was
: already rendered useless in September that same year, when devfs was
: modified to just obtain the ownership/modes from the cdevpriv instead of
: the cdevsw.
:
: Interesting commits:
:
: - http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=143746
: - http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=150342
True, but you've now spent way more time than a version bump would
have taken on this. The first of these also does a version bump. :)
And you haven't answered my question: Have you confirmed that there's
no ABI changes on all platforms?
Warner
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