In message <19990509081553.6ab261...@spinner.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm write s: >Greg Lehey wrote: >> A day or so ago, bdevsw changed from being an array of struct cdevsws >> to an inline function. That's not a problem in itself: do a make >> world and all will be well. It does, however, mean that klds which >> were compiled before the change will no longer load. I had a report >> today of one person who forgot to do this, and his source tree is on a >> vinum volume, and he can't load vinum. Beware! > >That isn't all.. If you are using kld modules, it is a Really Good Idea to >keep your kld modules compiled and in sync with your kernel while internal >interfaces are changing. kget(8) also will need a recompile. > >People who are running -current for stability had better be damn careful >and be very selective about what they choose to run as a stable snapshot.
Amen brother. In general any commit to sys/kern/* or sys/sys/* should make you pay a LOT of attention. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
