Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 18:54:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Kernel API version -> param.h Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980504185209.3913A-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <19980504203155.41473@follo.net>
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You might want to also take a look at what Richard Wackerbarth proposed in conf/6346, as it falls into a similar category as this. Steve On Mon, 4 May 1998, 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! # # Eivind. # [patches elided] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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