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Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmom7gNBhyuBgg9YkCLRohR6eE-JfBYYtxfFeTkSiGhgHyw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:21:06 -0700
From:	Adrian Chadd <adrian@...ebsd.org>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc:	ath9k_htc_fw <ath9k_htc_fw@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: Version number policy!

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