From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 4 19:16:55 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D3337B401; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:16:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from odysseus.silby.com (d105.as26.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.65.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1B443FAF; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from odysseus.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by odysseus.silby.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h253DWF7017934; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:13:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by odysseus.silby.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) with ESMTP id h253DVm5017931; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:13:32 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: odysseus.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:13:30 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_linker.c src/sys/boot/common help.common loader.8 module.c In-Reply-To: <20030304220600.GB73366@sunbay.com> Message-ID: <20030304211045.W15443@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200303032253.h23MrZ4F038178@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030304005242.GA38799@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030304092528.GA76504@sunbay.com> <20030304174544.GB40822@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030304220600.GB73366@sunbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Seriously, do you have an example of a working 4.x module running > under the 5.0-RELEASE or later kernel? > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, And even if there was one, the fact is that 5.0 requires many changes. If a 3rd party kernel module fails to load, the user can presumably debug that _very_ easily, and will say "oops, I didn't read the docs". If a 4.x module causes a panic, the user will just swear at how crappy FreeBSD is. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message