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authorkensmith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>2009-06-23 01:03:09 +0000
committerkensmith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>2009-06-23 01:03:09 +0000
commitb984c4c50faa0408f664be44a54fd3f890b09c64 (patch)
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parent1a82c9d31363acffab29dbfe4aa9b59c205cf9f1 (diff)
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Describe the new algorithm for handling __FreeBSD_version, specifically
the 'R' value now being allowed to take on more values than 0 or 1 and permitting more than 100 version bumps in pre-release branches.
-rw-r--r--sys/sys/param.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/sys/param.h b/sys/sys/param.h
index 31c8112..75d133d 100644
--- a/sys/sys/param.h
+++ b/sys/sys/param.h
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@
* doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
*
* scheme is: <major><two digit minor>Rxx
- * 'R' is 0 if release branch or x.0-CURRENT before RELENG_*_0
- * is created, otherwise 1.
+ * 'R' is in the range 0 to 4 if this is a release branch or
+ * x.0-CURRENT before RELENG_*_0 is created, otherwise 'R' is
+ * in the range 5 to 9.
*/
#undef __FreeBSD_version
#define __FreeBSD_version 800099 /* Master, propagated to newvers */
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