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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys



Bill Studenmund wrote:
> You changed field names and deleted one. You really should bump the
> version. The point isn't just that you kept struct proc's layout the same,
> it's that you renamed something.
> 
> While you've done an excelent job of maintaining binary compatability, you
> have broken source compatability. The packages I'm familiar with that try 
> to keep lkms and drivers up to date use defines based on kernel version. 
> This change makes it so that that behavior (defines) doesn't work.

This change doesn't affect LKMs in any way. These fields were
private kernel only, only used by the actual RAS code.

Jaromir 
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