Jerry Jelinek wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> I think it doesn't qualify for automatic approval. I suspect the
>> special numbering will be the cause of some consternation. I'm not
>> sure what number we're up to on our patching, but when will we run
>> into the problem where our patch numbers don't work?
>
> Patch IDs currently start with a leading '1' and we at almost
> 40,000 right now, so we've made ~40k patches over the course
> of Sun's life. I'm not sure when patches were introduced; 20 years
> ago? Maybe someone I cc'ed knows. Since patch IDs started with 1 and
> we've carved out 9, that leaves ~760k to go, so while this was discussed,
> it was not considered to be an issue.
Okay, given that... I'm much happier to give this the +1. :-) I *hope*
we won't still be using the current patch system before we run out of
patch ids. :-)
-- Garrett
