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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:13:48 +0200
From:      Gregory Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Subject:   Re: KBI unexpexted change in stable/11 ?
Message-ID:  <20180328151348.GP51114@v1.leiden.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180328143551.GD6612@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20180328130903.GC6612@zxy.spb.ru> <20180328133946.GN51114@v1.leiden.byshenk.net> <20180328143551.GD6612@zxy.spb.ru>

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 05:35:51PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:39:46PM +0200, Gregory Byshenk wrote:
> > 
> > Did you rebuild your virtualbox and nvidia modules for your new
> > kernel? If you build a new kernel, then you need to rebuild any
> > modules that were installed from ports for the new version.
> 
> Only for -CURRENT, not for -STABLE:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2018-March/159649.html
> 
> John Baldwin: "In theory we try to not break existing kernel
> modules on a stable branch.  That is, one should be able to kldload an
> if_iwn.ko built on 11.0 on a 11-stable kernel."

I understand that this is true for standard kernel modules, but
I have frequently run into problems loading _ports_ modules on
a new kernel - including in STABLE.

-- 
gregory byshenk  -  gbyshenk@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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