From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 21 17:48:36 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCAC37B401; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D8A43E4A; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0M1mLP4052012; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:48:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:48:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Scott Long Cc: Bosko Milekic , Nate Lawson , Bruce Evans , Alfred Perlstein , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha busdma_machdep.c src/sys/alpha/osf1 imgact_osf1.c osf1_misc.c src/sys/cam cam_periph.c cam_sim.c cam_xpt.c src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_ch.c scsi In-Reply-To: <3E2DF620.2040700@btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote: > I think that Nate's concern was *binary* compatibilty with 5.0, i.e. > being able to load 5.0 kld's on a 5.1 system. It's a very noble and > worthy goal to attempt, though at this point I don't know if it's > possible. Since I'm planning to change the structure of the mbuf header in a few weeks, I think that the binary value of the mbuf allocation flag would be almost trivial in comparison to the wanton destruction mbuf header incompatibility :-). Indeed, the only useful compatibility here is API compatibility. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message