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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:47:28 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: There is *NO* abi stability in -head
Message-ID:  <0d173f14-dd07-8a06-0937-63f2b350cc5c@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGudoHERrva8esddVU66PhZYL%2BZjmh8JtWXFtH4=vBZcTX-aQg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAGudoHERrva8esddVU66PhZYL%2BZjmh8JtWXFtH4=vBZcTX-aQg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/23/17 22:35, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> This is your friendly reminder that in head struct layouts can change
> and each update requires you to rebuild *all* modules (including ones
> which come from ports). In practice you can get away without it most of
> the time, but if in doubt or seeing funny crashes - *recompile* and test
> with that.
> 

Hi,

And for developers making this changes, consider bumping the 
__FreeBSD_version macro in sys/sys/param.h along with your commit. It 
forces recompilation of external kernel modules :-)

--HPS




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