Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:48:39 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r220755 - in head: . contrib/gcc/doc contrib/gcc/objc contrib/libobjc etc/mtree gnu/lib gnu/lib/libobjc gnu/usr.bin/cc gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1obj gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc s... Message-ID: <201104181448.39401.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <8204A257-C8F6-4DCA-99EC-BE48BD9C84E7@bsdimp.com> References: <201104172103.p3HL3Ntb049564@svn.freebsd.org> <20110418070124.GA67934@freebsd.org> <8204A257-C8F6-4DCA-99EC-BE48BD9C84E7@bsdimp.com>
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On Monday, April 18, 2011 1:06:42 pm Warner Losh wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Roman Divacky wrote: > > > please mark this in src/UPDATING, maybe bump freebsd_version too? > > Please do not bump freebsd_version just for this. Ports wishing to know can go off the last bump, if there are any. > > Every freebsd_version bump forces rebuilding all modules and such and is a pita. No, what it breaks is building a module with a newer source tree than your running kernel and trying to kldload it. That is never really supported, but the kernel only notices when a version bump happens. The real fix there is to run a kernel + modules that are in sync on test boxes. -- John Baldwin
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