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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2000 02:19:36 +0900
From:      "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
To:        peter@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.kmod.mk
Message-ID:  <86n1m8amzb.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Mon, 1 May 2000 11:06:50 -0700 (PDT)" <200005011806.LAA88758@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200005011806.LAA88758@freefall.freebsd.org>

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At Mon, 1 May 2000 11:06:50 -0700 (PDT),
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> peter       2000/05/01 11:06:50 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     share/mk             bsd.kmod.mk 
>   Log:
>   Remove KMODDEPS support.  All our existing dependencies are specified
>   via the MODULE_VERSION() and MODULE_DEPEND() macros that both the loader
>   and kld system know how to deal with.  The old DT_NEEDED tag is still
>   supported by the loader (and will remain supported for a while) - but the
>   kernel side presently doesn't know how to deal with DT_NEEDED.

Now that kernel modules' compatibility has lost, why not we bump the
__FreeBSD_version?

I'm about to do some hack over the vmware and rtc ports and their
kernel modules to support 4-stable through the most recent 5-current,
and certainly need a new __FreeBSD_version (OSVERSION) that indicates
the point where the changes above are made.

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