Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:21:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: Version number policy! | From | Adrian Chadd <> |
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On 5 April 2013 01:19, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> This is better than anything we had drafted before for 802.11 open > firmware design rules. Cc'ing a few lists for wider review given that > what we had written before for rules was for 802.11 and Bluetooth [0] > and it was very Linux specific. We are striving for open firmware here > for the community, for BSD / Linux. Christian would have dealt with > more of the support on open firmware design so far due to carl9170.fw > [1] so curious if he has any input. >
I'm treating it like shared libraries should be treated - minor versions shouldn't break existing stuff, just add new calls. Major versions are incompatible.
We'll see how well this scales after people hack at it for a while.
Adrian
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