r228700 can't dhclient em0

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 20 19:35:18 UTC 2011


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:30:34PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
B> I also worry about the problem that once you've installed world there is
B> no easy way back.

When working on the patch for last months I did numerous 'make installkernel
installworld' switching between a patched sources and unpatched, and everything
goes fine.

B> If we can identify all the changed interfaces and we can teach 9-STABLE
B> to deal with them then this change is probably OK and we just need to
B> do the appropriate libc and ifconfig spackling and merge it.  We can't
B> let this slide too long though because the current state requires an
B> installkernel+installworld for all intents and purposes and that means
B> that if the kernel is broken you are dead in the water.
B> 
B> I agree we could really use some sort of way forward that increases our
B> abilty to make these sorts of changes.

Why 9-STABLE? This change isn't going to be merged.

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