From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 12: 9:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from PLUTO.forumone.com (host04.forumone.com [207.197.235.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D2437BBAD for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adhir@forumone.com) Received: by PLUTO.forumone.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <2GYQATG7>; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:09:06 -0400 Message-ID: From: Alok Dhir To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" , "'Rodney W. Grimes'" Cc: "'Jacques A . Vidrine'" , 'Richard Wackerbarth' , "'freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:09:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One (relatively minor) example is Open Sound System... http://www.opensound.com/freebsd.html Al > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jordan > K. Hubbard > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 2:58 PM > To: Rodney W. Grimes > Cc: Jacques A . Vidrine; Richard Wackerbarth; > freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility > > > > Gee, is that perhaps because FreeBSD keeps breaking the ABI > to modules > > so every vendor that has ever tried to use them has been > bitten by the > > fact that they have to maintain N version for each branch > of FreeBSD??? > > Can you list some specific examples? I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, > I'm trying to figure out which vendors are using KLDs in general since > I've still yet to actually bump into a real-life example of this kind > of breakage in the field. I'm not saying that it's never happened, > I'm simply saying that I've not seen it and would like some details on > such incidents - company name and module type will do fine. > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message