cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:45 pm, Joao Barros wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > alfred      2006-01-12 19:15:14 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             kern_conf.c
> >   Log:
> >   Novel idea, don't print a string if it is NULL!
> >
> >   This protects people from loading _really_ old modules, like say from
> >   5.x to a 6.x or 7.x system, like for instance right after an upgrade.
>
> Will this prevent loading an old nvidia module on boot after a kernel
> upgrade, which most times hangs the kernel? I mean, it will only
> prevent the module loading on 5.x to 6.x or for example 6.0 to 6.1?

This is something specific to loading pre-devfs (4.x) modules on devfs systems 
(5.x and later).

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