From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 16 18:37:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28241 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:37:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28235 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12858; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:36:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd012847; Mon Nov 16 19:36:41 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05399; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:36:40 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811170236.TAA05399@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: linux bugs To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:36:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811110812.TAA32188@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 11, 98 07:12:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 > >> Installing linux from sys/modules/linux/ clobbers the version installed > >> from lkm/linux/, and vice versa. Breakage is limited by bugs in > > > >Given that modules are meant to replace lkms, I don't find that > >particularly odd. > > It's odd when the lkm one wins. Peter just fixed this. It's pure darwinism. I had just finished winning "core wars" when I went to code up the LKM subsystem... ;-) Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message