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:Oh yuck. Please do rename the darn thing back at some point then. Or if its
:only going to be in -current, don't bother. No one expects to be able to use a
:4.x module in 5.x, so just change the function w/o the old name.
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:John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
I'd like to see this MFC'd to stable at some point and they should be
the same patch.
For anything in production, a rename is usually necessary when the
API change is not backwards compatible. Even though it's somewhat
unsightly, it's worth the time it saves developers (especially developers
working on code outside the source tree).
When I redid the socket descriptor reference code I pulled the API
change & rename trick, and Julian popped out of the woodwork a week
later complaining of a kld module refusing to load. I had missed
a function. The rename undoubtedly saved him hours of kernel crash
debugging.
-Matt
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