From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 11:24:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0303A37B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA63814; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:24:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Matthew Luckie Cc: Subject: Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Feb 2001 20:24:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: Matthew Luckie's message of "Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:11:58 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Luckie writes: > I have written a KLD module that implements a syscall > I wrote this module on 3.2-release, although this module is going to be > used on a 3.0-release machine Don't run 3.0. > Is it possible for me to hack my kernel module to work on freebsd > 3.0-release? Don't run 3.0. > So my question is, is it possible for me to hack my kernel module to work > on FreeBSD 3.0-release? Don't run 3.0. Even when released, 3.0 was not meant for production use, or in fact any use at all except by developers and those interested in helping out debugging RELENG_3 so we would one day be able to call it -STABLE. It's quite conceivably the most buggy and incomplete FreeBSD release ever. So allow me to repeat my advice: Don't run 3.0. In fact, don't run any kind of 3.x at all, since we stopped fixing bugs (except for some, but not all, known security holes) about half a year ago. If you absolutely must run RELENG_3, don't run anything but the very latest 3.5-STABLE (cvsup and cvs are your friends). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message