On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:45 pm, Joao Barros wrote: > On 1/12/06, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
