[PATCH] Automatic kernel version module dependencies..
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Feb 9 15:09:58 PST 2008
In message: <86sl02e736.fsf at ds4.des.no>
Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
: > So one of the things that people run into periodically are problems
: > with mismatched kernels and modules. My understanding of our kernel
: > module ABI compatibility is that if you build a module on in a X.Y
: > build environment the module should work fine for all kernels with
: > version X.Z where Z >= Y.
:
: ...provided they were built from the same config... I think
: MUTEX_PROFILING has been fixed, but there may still be cases where the
: ABI changes dependening on kernel options.
These are usually well documented. But I can't find any in the
current doc set. Maybe you could point me at options that do this so
we can document them (and maybe add a #warning when compiling with
them)?
Warner
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