[PATCH] Automatic kernel version module dependencies..

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Feb 9 02:51:19 PST 2008


John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
> So one of the things that people run into periodically are problems
> with mismatched kernels and modules.  My understanding of our kernel
> module ABI compatibility is that if you build a module on in a X.Y
> build environment the module should work fine for all kernels with
> version X.Z where Z >= Y.

...provided they were built from the same config...  I think
MUTEX_PROFILING has been fixed, but there may still be cases where the
ABI changes dependening on kernel options.

DES
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