svn commit: r351729 - in head: lib/libc/gen lib/libc/sys sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/kern sys/sys
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Sep 3 12:54:23 UTC 2019
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 5:45 AM Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 07:35:05AM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> > Hey Mateusz,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:16:31AM +0000, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > > Author: mjg
> > > Date: Tue Sep 3 04:16:30 2019
> > > New Revision: 351729
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/351729
> > >
> > > Log:
> > > Add sysctlbyname system call
> > >
> > > Previously userspace would issue one syscall to resolve the sysctl
> and then
> > > another one to actually use it. Do it all in one trip.
> > >
> > > Fallback is provided in case newer libc happens to be running on an
> older
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Submitted by: Pawel Biernacki
> > > Reported by: kib, brooks
> > > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17282
> > >
> > > Modified:
> > ... snip ...
> > > head/sys/sys/param.h
> >
> > ... snip ...
> >
> > >
> > > Modified: head/sys/sys/param.h
> > >
> ==============================================================================
> > > --- head/sys/sys/param.h Mon Sep 2 21:57:57 2019 (r351728)
> > > +++ head/sys/sys/param.h Tue Sep 3 04:16:30 2019 (r351729)
> > > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
> > > * in the range 5 to 9.
> > > */
> > > #undef __FreeBSD_version
> > > -#define __FreeBSD_version 1300044 /* Master, propagated to newvers */
> > > +#define __FreeBSD_version 1300045 /* Master, propagated to newvers */
> >
> > To an outsider, it seems that __FreeBSD_version tends to be bumped in
> > a separate commit. Am I remembering that right?
>
> It should be bumped in the same commit, but people forget or the bump
> they have in their review turns into a no-op because someone else does a
> bump in the interim (the latter has bit me several times).
>
Often when that happens to me, I'll just piggyback off the prior bump by
just documenting the version bump as also covering what I just did. Though
there is some judgement too based on number of days and how bad the effects
in the in between zone might be. It's always a fuzzy thing if you zoom in
on it, though, due to after the fact bumps.
Warner
>
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