[PATCH] VFS KPI/API versioning

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Sat Aug 29 14:25:10 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:04:55AM +0200, Attilio Rao wrote:
[snip]
> Something that concerned me is also the mis-usage of the VFS_VERSION
> macro, which can be easilly used at compile time in order to determine
> if a feature is present or not. Basically, I have no idea by when it
> doesn't get updated and if it has ever been checked in our codes. It
> seems to use a random number as the start count, while it could have
> been handled differently. Maybe it would be the case to start taking
> care of that too, which can be an interesting tool.

Quite offtopic, just a note about the "random number as the start count"
part - it's not exactly random; take a "fgrep 1966" to calendar.freebsd ;)

G'luck,
Peter

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This would easier understand fewer had omitted.
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