[PATCH] Automatic kernel version module dependencies..

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 11 12:48:16 PST 2008


2008/2/11, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 06:24:37 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>  > "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>  > > Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
>  > > > ...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.
>  > > These are usually well documented.  But I can't find any in the
>  > > current doc set.  Maybe you could point me at options that do this so
>  > > we can document them (and maybe add a #warning when compiling with
>  > > them)?
>  >
>  > Here's one I found: DEBUG_LOCKS changes the size of struct lock, which
>  > changes the size and layout of struct vnode.
>
>
> Yes, DEBUG_LOCKS, MUTEX_PROFILING (O.B.E), and PAE are the ones I know of.  We
>  could employ a similar strategy for these btw.  For example, you could do
>  this for PAE:

LOCK_PROFILING also, but only on 7.0.

Attilio


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