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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys




On 23.02.2017 07:23, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Thu, 23 Feb 2017 05:29:41 +0000
>     From:        Martin Husemann <martin%netbsd.org@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <20170223052941.GA29472%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost>
> 
>   | Does this kind of change really require a version bump?
> 
> That one didn't, but there was another checkin, 5 or 6 mins earlier,
> which changed (added to) struct mdproc (on i386 and amd64 anyway),
> and as that struct is included in struct proc, struct proc got bigger,
> and that does require a version bump.
> 
> However, another change, a few hours earlier, carried a note ...
> 

I'm evaluating it from the osabi (pkgsrc term) point of view. I'm
targeting LLDB for 7.99.62+. If the kernel bump approach is reserved for
loadable kernel modules, I will follow this in future changes.

>  | Kernel bump delayed till introduction of PT_GETDBREGS/PT_SETDBREGS soon.
> 
> and as best I can see, neither that change, nor the ones around it,
> had any reason to require a bump.
> 
> kre
> 
> ps: kernel version bumps are good - we will soon approach 7.77.99 and at
> that point, a branch of netbsd-8 is kind of forced!
> 

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