From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 21:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C4937B404; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA06650; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:48:47 +1100 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:48:41 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Warner Losh Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Cameron Grant , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC In-Reply-To: <200101220213.f0M2D6903850@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200101212236.f0LMajc09302@green.dyndns.org> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > : 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. E.g., 4.x drivers probably use spl's, but spl's no longer exist as extern functions. The vmware modules broke about 5 minutes after I rebuilt them when extern spl's went away a couple of days ago :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message