Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:49:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bdevsw has changed its character Message-ID: <19990509174914.A22791@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990509081553.6AB261F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:15:51PM %2B0800 References: <19990509100031.N68170@freebie.lemis.com> <19990509081553.6AB261F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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On Sunday, 9 May 1999 at 16:15:51 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> A day or so ago, bdevsw changed from being an array of struct cdevsws >> to an inline function. That's not a problem in itself: do a make >> world and all will be well. It does, however, mean that klds which >> were compiled before the change will no longer load. I had a report >> today of one person who forgot to do this, and his source tree is on a >> vinum volume, and he can't load vinum. Beware! > > That isn't all.. If you are using kld modules, it is a Really Good Idea to > keep your kld modules compiled and in sync with your kernel while internal > interfaces are changing. Right, it was just pretty unfortunate in this case (and I heard of another one) that the person had his source tree mounted on a vinum volume, so he could no longer access it :-) If this happens to anybody else, there's a version of the vinum kld compiled this morning on ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/vinum/vinum.ko. > kget(8) also will need a recompile. > > People who are running -current for stability had better be damn careful > and be very selective about what they choose to run as a stable snapshot. I think the real problem is that the klds get built with "make world" and not with a kernel build. How about changing that? I've got the opposite problem on another machine: I did a make world, but not a reboot, and now my Linux emulation is broken. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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