On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 13:03 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Friday, June 10, 2016 02:05:54 AM Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > The current choice of variable names is rather confusing.  LIB_MIN is
> > used for the soname version, which would normally be the *major* part
> > of the version.
> > 
> > - Rename LIB_MAJ (the full version) to LIB_VER and LIB_MIN (the soname
> >   version) to LIB_SONAME_VER
> > - Define LIB_SONAME_VER to be the first component of LIB_VER
> > - Bump the full version to 1.0.0, since the soname version is currently 1
> 
> I am currently working on adding rapl/powercapping things into
> cpupower.
> I will collect/integrate your patches and send them altogether.

The ABI break has already happened, so changing the soname version is a
bug fix that should go into 4.7.  But I agree this second patch doesn't
need to.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.