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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:48:41 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newpcm/kobj MFC 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101221646550.26729-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101220213.f0M2D6903850@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <200101212236.f0LMajc09302@green.dyndns.org> "Brian F. Feldman" writes:
> : And then make it so that binary compatibility will be preserved between 5.0 
> : and 4.X for newpcm modules?   (at least until the driver is properly locked
> : ...)
> 
> There is no way in heck that a 4.x driver will run on 5.x right now.

E.g., 4.x drivers probably use spl's, but spl's no longer exist as extern
functions.  The vmware modules broke about 5 minutes after I rebuilt them
when extern spl's went away a couple of days ago :-).

Bruce



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