From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 6:20:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from put.worldonline.nl (relay-2.worldonline.nl [195.241.48.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91BB37BAFA for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 06:20:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from vangelderen.org (vp227-230.worldonline.nl [195.241.227.230]) by put.worldonline.nl (8.9.3 (WOL 1.2)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA14543; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:20:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <39044A19.F6F4E479@vangelderen.org> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:20:25 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility References: <200004231909.MAA09128@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <00042315420301.24082@nomad.dataplex.net> <200004240605.XAA66216@apollo.backplane.com> <00042404464300.09955@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : However, I consider your SMP changes VERY destablizing; they BREAK > > : lots of modules :-( > > > > Huh? No they don't. They simply require recompiling the modules. If > > they actually broke the modules I wouldn't be trying to MFC it to > > -stable. > > >From the USER's perspective, anything that requires me to as much as reload > a module/program that I have already installed "breaks" it. > The fact that it is only necessary to recompile it in order to fix it only > means that it is easy to fix IF I have the source code. I don't think it was ever recommended that you upgrade your kernel without upgrading and rebuilding the modules (better still, world) at the same time. So this wouldn't really have an adverse effect, would it? Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message