From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 7:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888FA37BAC2 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (root@rac8.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.148]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05698; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:09:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA14076; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:09:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14072; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:09:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac8.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:09:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Richard Wackerbarth , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility In-Reply-To: <39044A19.F6F4E479@vangelderen.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > : However, I consider your SMP changes VERY destablizing; they BREAK > > > : lots of modules :-( > > > > > > Huh? No they don't. They simply require recompiling the modules. If > > > they actually broke the modules I wouldn't be trying to MFC it to > > > -stable. > > > > >From the USER's perspective, anything that requires me to as much as reload > > a module/program that I have already installed "breaks" it. > > The fact that it is only necessary to recompile it in order to fix it only > > means that it is easy to fix IF I have the source code. > > I don't think it was ever recommended that you upgrade your kernel > without upgrading and rebuilding the modules (better still, world) at > the same time. So this wouldn't really have an adverse effect, would it? > I believe that it depends on what changes were made since the last recompile, although it is good practice to at least recompile the modules when the kernel is recompiled. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message