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[Warner Losh]

On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:48 PM, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Monday, April 18, 2011 1:06:42 pm Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Roman Divacky wrote:
>> 
>>> please mark this in src/UPDATING, maybe bump freebsd_version too?
>> 
>> Please do not bump freebsd_version just for this.  Ports wishing to know can go off the last bump, if there are any.
>> 
>> Every freebsd_version bump forces rebuilding all modules and such and is a pita.
> 
> No, what it breaks is building a module with a newer source tree than your
> running kernel and trying to kldload it.  That is never really supported,
> but the kernel only notices when a version bump happens.  The real fix there
> is to run a kernel + modules that are in sync on test boxes.

The problem is that this is a technical solution that precludes me from saying "look, I know that this will be OK, so let me do it"  I know nothing has changed that would cause a problem.

Warner