Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:48:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, 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 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030121204703.47551A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3E2DF620.2040700@btc.adaptec.com>
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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
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