From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 7:27:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B571337BB2D for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (24.28.73.209) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:27:05 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:27:04 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.41] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042409270400.09338@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > I don't think it was ever recommended that you upgrade your kernel > > without upgrading and rebuilding the modules (better still, world) at > > the same time. So this wouldn't really have an adverse effect, would it? > > I believe that it depends on what changes were made since the last > recompile, although it is good practice to at least recompile the modules > when the kernel is recompiled. On a released system, I may not have the sources to recompile the module. It might be a proprietary module that I got with the hardware, for example. That is why STABLE INTERFACES are so IMPORTANT to USERS. "Current" is a sandbox. Lower expectations are part of that game. But released systems are stone houses, not sandcastles. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message