On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:48 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > 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.
The problem is that this is a technical solution that precludes me from saying "look, I know that this will be OK, so let me do it" I know nothing has changed that would cause a problem. Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
