Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:48:07 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c Message-ID: <200601131648.09117.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0601121145t71e00880j8c98f99195af41e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601121915.k0CJFErD031318@repoman.freebsd.org> <70e8236f0601121145t71e00880j8c98f99195af41e5@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart13223548.iKgebsQHs8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:15, Joao Barros wrote: > > 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? No it won't. The nvidia port should really put the kernel module into /boot/kernel to=20 prevent this sort of foot shooting. Better yet commit my patch to rebuild port KLD's when the kernel is built :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart13223548.iKgebsQHs8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDx0Yh5ZPcIHs/zowRArFHAJ9ng0fC4gJUcwUN6VncVpcYgmV/xQCgpELz GZQjvgu1df/pfx6OuZk87mc= =vR+g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13223548.iKgebsQHs8--
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