Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:13:48 +0200 From: Gregory Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Subject: Re: KBI unexpexted change in stable/11 ? Message-ID: <20180328151348.GP51114@v1.leiden.byshenk.net> In-Reply-To: <20180328143551.GD6612@zxy.spb.ru> References: <20180328130903.GC6612@zxy.spb.ru> <20180328133946.GN51114@v1.leiden.byshenk.net> <20180328143551.GD6612@zxy.spb.ru>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 05:35:51PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:39:46PM +0200, Gregory Byshenk wrote: > > > > Did you rebuild your virtualbox and nvidia modules for your new > > kernel? If you build a new kernel, then you need to rebuild any > > modules that were installed from ports for the new version. > > Only for -CURRENT, not for -STABLE: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2018-March/159649.html > > John Baldwin: "In theory we try to not break existing kernel > modules on a stable branch. That is, one should be able to kldload an > if_iwn.ko built on 11.0 on a 11-stable kernel." I understand that this is true for standard kernel modules, but I have frequently run into problems loading _ports_ modules on a new kernel - including in STABLE. -- gregory byshenk - gbyshenk@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL
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