In article <20120110014214.ga14...@blef.org>, Soren Jacobsen <s...@pobox.com> wrote: >On 01/09 19:08, Robert Elz wrote: >> Could someone who knows please explain the rules for the construction >> of __NetBSD_Version__ for releases, what the sub-fields are, and how >> they're actually used - and then perhaps actually put that information >> into param.h ? > >Well, I've made all of the 5.x __NetBSD_Version changes to date, so I >guess I ought to speak up. Basically, I looked at 4.0.1 and saw that we >didn't bump the version number for 4.0.1, and figured that was >intentional. Maybe it was simply an omission. I don't recall checking >3.x. My thinking was that we didn't care much if the version number got >bumped unless there was an API/ABI change. Given that line of >reasoning, I don't know why I bumped it for 5.1 -- temporary insanity? > >In any case, if the consensus is that it should be bumped with every >release, we can certainly do that in the future.
It was designed to be bumped with every release. Now if that is necessary or not, is a different story. christos
