cvs commit: VOP_ATTRIB ... and sysutils/fusefs-kmod

Doug Rabson dfr at rabson.org
Tue Sep 9 09:22:59 UTC 2008


On 8 Sep 2008, at 19:12, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 03:24:47 pm M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809020739390.1150 at fledge.watson.org>
>>
>>            Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> : 8-CURRENT kernels should reject old modules from loading unless
>> : __FreeBSD_version hasn't been bumped.
>>
>> Sure would be nice if the error message were more helpful as to the
>> cause.  The current behavior is a bit, ummm, cryptic...
>
> Yes it is.  I want to fix this but it requires overhauling some of  
> the basic
> assumptions of the kernel module stuff and as such is tied up in my  
> desire to
> really fix module versions (as per my mail to arch@ a while back).

Which I forgot to reply to. For the record, I completely agree with  
your suggested change to module version semantics.



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