From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 23 20:59:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11507 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11498 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:59:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA10623; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:28:36 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199803240458.PAA10623@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Studded , FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Important questions regarding the new slice code In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:51:46 -0800." <27531.890697106@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:28:36 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > not, what are the possible repercussions? > It will update the kernel in that it will splat the new GENERIC one > right on top. If the user had heavily customized it, there will > of course be repercussions. Ahh, but if they have a custom kernel, then by iplication they have access to the source and are capable of compiling it (yes I know they could have got their clued up friends to do it, but sheesh..). So the kernel patches would be a source level patch. So this case reduces to the source patch one (ie issues regarding customised files etc) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message