From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 8:33: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BED437B635 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08762; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA29905; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:32:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29901; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:32:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:32:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility In-Reply-To: <00042409270400.09338@nomad.dataplex.net> 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 Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > I believe that it depends on what changes were made since the last > > recompile, although it is good practice to at least recompile the modules > > when the kernel is recompiled. > > On a released system, I may not have the sources to recompile the module. > It might be a proprietary module that I got with the hardware, for example. > That is why STABLE INTERFACES are so IMPORTANT to USERS. Yeah, I understand that. I was talking about -current. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message