From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 15 18:54: 0 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B86137B417; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAG2rQ214925; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:53:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:53:26 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Steve Kargl , Matthew Jacob , "David O'Brien" , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/gx if_gx.c if_gxreg.h if_gxvar.h Message-ID: <20011115215326.F10210@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20011115175616.A77299@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20011115201355.F71181-100000@achilles.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011115201355.F71181-100000@achilles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:16:13PM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Silbersack writes: > The problem with that is that if someone recompiles GENERIC, they'll > suddenly have a kernel with gx instead of wx, which will detect their > network card, but not use it upon boot. > > Subtle, but potentially very annoying for someone with a remotely > colocated box doing a remote kernel upgrade. Hopefully, users that upgrade their systems read either the release notes or src/UPDATING. If not, I'm sure they'll have much bigger problems than this one. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message