From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 14:15:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69EFB37BC0C for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA11696; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200004242114.OAA11696@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility In-Reply-To: <20000424150734.Y397@jade.chc-chimes.com> from Bill Fumerola at "Apr 24, 2000 03:07:35 pm" To: billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Cc: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:02:28PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > That is also partly why you are also lacking the respect and support of a > > wider audience. If you act like FreeBSD is just a "developer's sandbox", > > that's what it will be. If you want it to be something greater than that, you > > must consider what you are doing to third party developers and end users. > > Developers and early adopters are the ones tracking -STABLE. Users are > installing binary snapshots and releases. Some users do install snapshots and/or releases. Snap shots occur on a regular basis and are affected by this change in API. > No-one in their right mind would release a module for "4.0-STABLE sometime > between april and may". They release for 4.0-RELEASE or 4.1-RELEASE, > this would not cause problems for those people. Ahh.. the problem occurs with user Z running snap 4.0-stable 4/30 when trying to use vendor X module for 4.0-release. Get it?? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message