On Monday, April 18, 2011 1:06:42 pm Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Roman Divacky wrote:
> 
> > please mark this in src/UPDATING, maybe bump freebsd_version too?
> 
> Please do not bump freebsd_version just for this.  Ports wishing to know can 
> go off the last bump, if there are any.
> 
> Every freebsd_version bump forces rebuilding all modules and such and is a 
> pita.

No, what it breaks is building a module with a newer source tree than your
running kernel and trying to kldload it.  That is never really supported,
but the kernel only notices when a version bump happens.  The real fix there
is to run a kernel + modules that are in sync on test boxes.

-- 
John Baldwin
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