Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> The entire point is that somewhere the user has decided to upgrade
> their system, and they need to know what the consequences are before
> taking the plunge. If they upgrade their system half-ass (kernel, but
> not modules) they are digging their own grave.

More to the point, until the module versioning and dependency stuff hits
the tree, KLD modules remain a useful novelty.  I wouldn't consider them
to be at all appropriate for production systems right now.  The only
reliable way to insure that a given module works with a given kernel is to
build them from the same source tree at the same time. </strong opinion>

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