Re: Version number policy!

From: Adrian Chadd
Date: Fri Apr 05 2013 - 04:21:22 EST


On 5 April 2013 01:19, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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