Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:31:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning) Message-ID: <200004200731.BAA07337@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:15:40 -0000." <000365a645d89ae9_mailit@mail.pacbell.net> References: <000365a645d89ae9_mailit@mail.pacbell.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004191814410.73491-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <000365a645d89ae9_mailit@mail.pacbell.net> Alex Zepeda writes: : Perhaps it's time to implement some sort of versioning in the modules to : prevent them from being loaded into the incorrect kernel. In theory that sounds nice, but in -current the kernel ABI changes too quickly for that to be effecitve. The general rule in -current is that the modules must be compiled at the same time as the kernel, or from the same sources. Anything else might work, but is unsupported. I don't know of a good way to serialize (eg assign a serial number to) the sources that would work. For -stable, long periods of time pass between the ABI changes forcing a recompile, so it could be keyed off the FreeBSD version somehow. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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