Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:02:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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: <FCA75B5F-CCE4-431E-BA5E-C5828297F4E3@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <201104181448.39401.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201104172103.p3HL3Ntb049564@svn.freebsd.org> <20110418070124.GA67934@freebsd.org> <8204A257-C8F6-4DCA-99EC-BE48BD9C84E7@bsdimp.com> <201104181448.39401.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:48 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, April 18, 2011 1:06:42 pm Warner Losh wrote: >>=20 >> On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Roman Divacky wrote: >>=20 >>> please mark this in src/UPDATING, maybe bump freebsd_version too? >>=20 >> Please do not bump freebsd_version just for this. Ports wishing to = know can go off the last bump, if there are any. >>=20 >> Every freebsd_version bump forces rebuilding all modules and such and = is a pita. >=20 > 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. The problem is that this is a technical solution that precludes me from = saying "look, I know that this will be OK, so let me do it" I know = nothing has changed that would cause a problem. Warner
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