On Monday, April 18, 2011 4:02:10 pm Warner Losh wrote: > > 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. We could easily support some sort of cpp #define to disable the automatic MODULE_DEPEND() on the kernel. Then you could use
'make DEBUG_FLAGS="-DDISABLE_KERNEL_VERSION"' or whatever the variable is called when building your kernel modules. You could even have a DISABLE_KERNEL_VERSION make variable that adds that to CFLAGS in bsd.kmod.mk and then set it to yes in your /etc/make.conf. However, for normal users I think the precaution against loading an 8.x kld on 7 is worth it. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
