Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:34300 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751799Ab3DEIVI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Apr 2013 04:21:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:21:06 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20130405_102141_562682_7FCF16B1) Subject: Re: Version number policy! From: Adrian Chadd To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: ath9k_htc_fw , linux-wireless , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-bluetooth , Christian Lamparter Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 5 April 2013 01:19, Luis R. Rodriguez 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