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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 13:24:25 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.kmod.mk 
Message-ID:  <20000502202425.5BA681CE3@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>  of "Wed, 03 May 2000 02:19:36 %2B0900." <86n1m8amzb.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> 

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"Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" wrote:
> At Mon, 1 May 2000 11:06:50 -0700 (PDT),
> Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > peter       2000/05/01 11:06:50 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     share/mk             bsd.kmod.mk 
> >   Log:
> >   Remove KMODDEPS support.  All our existing dependencies are specified
> >   via the MODULE_VERSION() and MODULE_DEPEND() macros that both the loader
> >   and kld system know how to deal with.  The old DT_NEEDED tag is still
> >   supported by the loader (and will remain supported for a while) - but the
> >   kernel side presently doesn't know how to deal with DT_NEEDED.
> 
> Now that kernel modules' compatibility has lost, why not we bump the
> __FreeBSD_version?
>
> I'm about to do some hack over the vmware and rtc ports and their
> kernel modules to support 4-stable through the most recent 5-current,
> and certainly need a new __FreeBSD_version (OSVERSION) that indicates
> the point where the changes above are made.

Or.. #ifdef MODULE_VERSION / MODULE_DEPEND..  But you have a point.  I'll
bump it now and later when it gets revised.

Cheers,
-Peter



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