svn commit: r194210 - head/sys/sys

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jun 15 06:10:25 UTC 2009


In message: <1245014030.12125.34.camel at neo.cse.buffalo.edu>
            Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU> writes:
: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 19:53 +0000, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
: > Author: simon
: > Date: Sun Jun 14 19:53:52 2009
: > New Revision: 194210
: > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194210
: > 
: > Log:
: >   Bump __FreeBSD_version for OpenSSL 0.9.8k import.
: > 
: > Modified:
: >   head/sys/sys/param.h
: > 
: > Modified: head/sys/sys/param.h
: > ==============================================================================
: > --- head/sys/sys/param.h	Sun Jun 14 19:51:43 2009	(r194209)
: > +++ head/sys/sys/param.h	Sun Jun 14 19:53:52 2009	(r194210)
: > @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
: >   *		is created, otherwise 1.
: >   */
: >  #undef __FreeBSD_version
: > -#define __FreeBSD_version 800097	/* Master, propagated to newvers */
: > +#define __FreeBSD_version 800098	/* Master, propagated to newvers */
: >  
: >  #ifndef LOCORE
: >  #include <sys/types.h>
: 
: It's been suggested we change the heuristic to be stable branches start
: with 200.  I think we're going to do that so don't panic about there
: only being one number left for changes between now and the time we
: branch.

Why not 500?

: At first it surprised me we ate through almost 100 version numbers in
: head, which is a place traditionally abi changes are *expected* and the
: attitude has more or less been head is a free-for-all with all bets off.
: But some IRC chatter enlightened me to there actually being people who
: do advanced testing of ports and whatnot in head under the encouragement
: of portmgr@ despite its free-for-all nature to try and cut down on work
: during later stages of the release.  That seems reasonable so I think in
: general starting to give more than 100 bumps to work with in head is
: worthwhile.

I think so too.  If we're going to change, we might as well change big
and infrequently.

Warner


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