On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:31:17PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > > So, because of modules, we can't pullup new features to netbsd-6 ? > > > > How is this different from netbsd-5? > > Modules are not used by default on netbsd-5 AFAIK. On netbsd-6 > options MUODULAR is in i386 GENERIC, but it seems filesystem modules > are all compiled in by default. I'm not sure what other modules would > be affected by a change to struct buf ...
Releng has always as general policy refused changes that alter major internal APIs, regardless of module issues. AIUI, anyway. Some people have 3rd-party sources that would end up needing modifications and so forth. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
