Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:06:54 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change? Message-ID: <4F437ACE.3070907@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1J46WYBH=AUK9XHQMLHcFLMUKXrkfCVeABBJdcqQNOeCA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOjFWZ6WM1bLEwaBiUE50Gj4MrwxefDWFb85ecRtYkSDuZ0erg@mail.gmail.com> <mailpost.1329495670.7246668.67851.mailing.freebsd.hackers@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <4F3E8225.9030501@FreeBSD.org> <E1RyRKJ-000Ioa-Ec@hans3> <4F3E8C26.3080900@FreeBSD.org> <E1RyRq0-000Iqy-3l@hans3> <4F3EA5F2.9070804@gmail.com> <E1RyTZo-000J0R-0Y@hans3> <4F3EAE5F.6070903@gmail.com> <E1RyUv6-000J5e-0E@hans3> <20120217.220802.988.2@DOMY-PC> <4F3EDEBC.7040703@gmail.com> <4F3EFB70.5000102@FreeBSD.org> <CAFHbX1KO7mc0zhOGMHrKmAt%2BBnuqUM14RKCaug8RvaeCYnXAzw@mail.gmail.com> <4F42B6D9.9000400@FreeBSD.org> <CAFHbX1J46WYBH=AUK9XHQMLHcFLMUKXrkfCVeABBJdcqQNOeCA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/21/2012 02:49, Tom Evans wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 02/20/2012 06:44, Tom Evans wrote: >>> Whatever happened to POLA? This change surprised me, wasn't mentioned >>> in /usr/src/UPDATING, >> >> You're supposed to compare your existing kernel config to the new >> GENERIC every time you do a major version upgrade. That would have made >> the change quite obvious. >> > > "Dumb stupid user" - great argument Doug. Umm ... I didn't call anyone dumb, stupid, or any other names. It's been the common practice for major version upgrades since day 1. The whole reason we bump the major number is so that we can make changes that are incompatible with the previous major version. > As I am just a dumb stupid user, all I looked at were the kernel > release notes for 9: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#KERNEL > > Where none of this is mentioned. At all. I have nothing to do with the release notes, you should talk to hrs@ if you find them deficient. OTOH, some things are so fundamental that I can see how it wouldn't occur to him to include the detailed procedure in the release notes. Meanwhile, one could argue that this topic should be mentioned in more detail in the handbook. Feel free to create a PR for this and if no one else gets to it, I will. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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