Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:18:11 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel.old Message-ID: <19990509141811.A13330@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <21918.926281586@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 10:26:26PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905091608060.401-100000@picnic.mat.net> <21918.926281586@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >Something on the order of modules.old is going to need to > >be implemented. > > Not to mention /boot/kernel.old.config ... > > I think you are seeing -current as the norm. You shouldn't. Under > -stable the modules should (tm) continue to work since there are not > made API changes in -stable. BUT we shouldn't make it easy for our developers (who do need to run -CURRENT) to kill themselves. Our development time is limited, and recovering from a bum kernel can be a PITA in some situations, so lets not waste our development time when we don't need to. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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