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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> If you compile your own kernel, then freebsd-update will patch the
> kernel sources, but leave you to rebuild and reinstall your customized
> kernel.
>
> I don't know about the -p4 update. =A0By rights it should have involved
> updating the kernel by one or other of the two methods shown. =A0So far
> however, we've seen two reports questioning that[*] and none saying that
> the -p4 update did in fact update the kernel. =A0Which is suspicious, but
> hardly conclusive.

Do you compile your own kernel, or do you have a machine that uses
GENERIC?  If you do, what is the output of uname -a on it?