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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:56:14 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kthread_exit(9) unexpectedness
Message-ID:  <492677AE.7060607@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <4925E30B.8010709@freebsd.org>
References:  <492412E8.3060700@freebsd.org> <200811201502.23943.jhb@freebsd.org> <4925E30B.8010709@freebsd.org>

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Lawrence Stewart wrote:

> 
> I agree that the arrangement needs to be better documented. The change 
> in 8.x is subtle enough that reading the kthread man page in 7.x and 8.x 
> doesn't immediately make it obvious what's going on.
> 

I tried to walk the fine line between being completely incompatible 
and letting people fall into a trap.

The arguments and prototypes are different so code should fail to 
compile unless people have made changes to their code..





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