Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:38:20 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A Demo of rust-in-base Message-ID: <202408042038.474KcKrD052069@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfp3N7HSXK2yW2N6BCFS3aNJwJNiozpnhUvJUOAVX_H9rA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOtMX2gdt8xYyLR3peYWhov-161-6d7%2B8L6TiHCCyw1NQyspXw@mail.gmail.com> <202408041800.474I0HUM050473@critter.freebsd.dk> <CAOtMX2ht0EinR4G56gN6z=gQuJDAHfnE0JPOo7E6hSWC1=dDzA@mail.gmail.com> <202408041820.474IKjVV050602@critter.freebsd.dk> <CAOtMX2gh8O1OntWhBzhZLv6sFt9WHwWgOu8LmLWU3YQGYks=Uw@mail.gmail.com> <202408041904.474J4b9e050871@critter.freebsd.dk> <CANCZdfp3N7HSXK2yW2N6BCFS3aNJwJNiozpnhUvJUOAVX_H9rA@mail.gmail.com>
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-------- Warner Losh writes: > > > Because those two components need to be updated in lock-step with > > > potentially any git commit to the base system. Not just official > > > releases, even minor ones. > > > > I'm not trying to be glib here: I really want to make sure I understand > > any fine nuances you are trying to communicate. > > > > Isn't that precisely what drm-kmod already deals with ? > > [...] > > The other is KBI and matching the kernel. The massive inlining in linuxkpi > make a stable KBI basically impossible [...] That was essentially my point: We already have things in ports which are totally fragile relative to the kernel, so I want to make sure there is not som new/other/worse/different aspects in the two cases Alan brought up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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