From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 11 19: 9:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDDB1517C; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA73486; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37B22CDA.6D0BC5FA@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:09:30 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0730 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Lee Green Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on receiver lockups References: <37ACA0E3.7064314B@gorean.org> <99080812061000.00360@ehome.local.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eric Lee Green wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > > Eric Lee Green wrote: > > > > > Well, I cvsup'ed "stable" (just the kernel) > > > > I'm glad it worked for you this time, but I can't let this pass without a > > warning. It's a very bad idea to upgrade your source then build just the > > kernel. You should always make world first to avoid possible > > incompatabilities between the kernel and your userland programs. > > Hmm, is the kernel in "stable" going to change enough for this to be a big > deal? In general? No. If you are following the -stable mailing list you should be in good shape. However you have to balance the number of times such breakage is going to occur, and the concurrent inconvenience vs. the inconvenience of doing the make world (which is really small once you get into a rythm with it). Of course, it's your decision ultimately, I just didn't want any new users reading your post to get the idea that upgrading kernel without upgrading userland too was the "right" way to do it. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message