From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 19:31:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk (vilnya.demon.co.uk [158.152.19.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CDC37B401; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar (darkstar.rings [10.2.4.16]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DA24D9B8; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:30:49 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <007101c08423$33d961a0$1004020a@darkstar> From: "Cameron Grant" To: "Brian F. Feldman" , "Warner Losh" Cc: , References: <200101212236.f0LMajc09302@green.dyndns.org> <200101220213.f0M2D6903850@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:27:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <200101212236.f0LMajc09302@green.dyndns.org> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > : Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message <003401c0833c$39ac3f40$1004020a@darkstar> "Cameron Grant" writes: > : > : unless vetoed for good reason, i intend to MFC kobj support into 4.x and > : > > : > Wouldn't the kobj merge break binary compatibility that we're trying > : > to maintain? > : > : And then make it so that binary compatibility will be preserved between 5.0 > : and 4.X for newpcm modules? (at least until the driver is properly locked > : ...) > > There is no way in heck that a 4.x driver will run on 5.x right now. once newpcm in 4.x is kobjified, drivers from 5.x will at least be source compatible, and appear to be binary compatible from the quick test i just did, though i'm not sure how dependancy data is handled. -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message