Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:48:34 -0600 From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas Message-ID: <fd36c2c0-1bad-ef36-6df7-bec8da6d79d0@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66b556bf-e797-483b-b377-182859be572a@www.fastmail.com> References: <861r36xzpe.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> <66b556bf-e797-483b-b377-182859be572a@www.fastmail.com>
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On 11/24/21 01:42, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> 1. updated kmod ports for point releases.
>
> we should be able to ship an x+1 RELEASE*and* have the appropriate kmod ports available at the same time. I know that unplanned API breakage is rare, but when it does happen, its absolutely brutal for end users.
+1
The drm-kmod breakage with 12.x presented a big hurdle for
desktop-installer. I added a temporary workaround to build the kmod
from source during both initial setup and updates with
auto-update-system. This was really ugly and slow and goes against my
general policy of not covering up underlying bugs. But I had to make an
exception in this case in order for desktop-installer to be useful at all.
--
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes
infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in
which he was born.
-- Francois Fenelon
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