svn commit: r198706 - head/sys/sys

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Mon Nov 2 10:04:39 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:12:12AM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> No, we don't. All these fields are not used by drivers, just some old
> version of the devfs code. I made sure struct cdevsw didn't change in
> size, so there should be no API nor ABI conflicts.

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?

	David.


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