From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 3:25:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC5637B58A; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12jg3Y-0002Zv-0X; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:25:32 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04164; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:34:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:30:58 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday In-Reply-To: <200004231855.LAA63309@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... > that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that > is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be > recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. > > The SMP patchset, in fact, requires that all kernel modules be > recompiled due to the locks that were removed from the spl*() macros. > This is something I would contemplate doing for 4.0->4.1, but not > something I would consider for 4.1 onward. Even though 4.0 is the > most stable .0 release we've ever had, it's still a .0. > > I wonder if it makes sense to add a release id to the module header > and have the module loader refuse (unless forced) to load modules that > are out-of-date with the kernel? This sounds quite reasonable. Perhaps you should commit the linux patch to -current right now and then merge it on Wednesday. That would give plenty of time for any teething problems to show up. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message