Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:28:36 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Important questions regarding the new slice code Message-ID: <199803240458.PAA10623@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:51:46 -0800." <27531.890697106@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 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
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