Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:17:24 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c Message-ID: <200601121517.26031.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0601121145t71e00880j8c98f99195af41e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601121915.k0CJFErD031318@repoman.freebsd.org> <70e8236f0601121145t71e00880j8c98f99195af41e5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:45 pm, Joao Barros wrote: > On 1/12/06, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote: > > alfred 2006-01-12 19:15:14 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/kern kern_conf.c > > Log: > > Novel idea, don't print a string if it is NULL! > > > > This protects people from loading _really_ old modules, like say from > > 5.x to a 6.x or 7.x system, like for instance right after an upgrade. > > Will this prevent loading an old nvidia module on boot after a kernel > upgrade, which most times hangs the kernel? I mean, it will only > prevent the module loading on 5.x to 6.x or for example 6.0 to 6.1? This is something specific to loading pre-devfs (4.x) modules on devfs systems (5.x and later). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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