From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 23 13:42:17 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 722B337B9B9 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:42:14 -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); Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:42:03 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:42:03 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.40] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004231909.MAA09128@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <00042315214900.24082@nomad.dataplex.net> <200004232031.NAA64273@apollo.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: <200004232031.NAA64273@apollo.backplane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042315420301.24082@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Rather than break the FreeBSD4 modules over which you have no control, > :perhaps your arguments should be used to accelerate the 5.0 release > :and make 4.x a short lived branch. > > I don't think this is possible. 4.0 is the most stable release we've > ever had, and I am confident that the 4.x series of releases will be > the best in FreeBSD's history probably until 5.1 or 5.2. It's all in the name. I don't disagree with your assesment of the code bases. However, I consider your SMP changes VERY destablizing; they BREAK lots of modules :-( I'm sure that we will get over it and have something that settles into a quite solid product. However, we COULD branch FreeBSD5 off of the FreeBSD4 branch rather than the head and call the head branch something else which would get released as FreeBSD6 or FreeBSD 2000 or ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message