SVN r296272 breaks virtualbox

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 2 17:26:30 UTC 2016


On Wednesday, March 02, 2016 07:06:26 AM Howard Su wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:28 PM Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > > The removal of "taskqueue_enqueue_fast" breaks the virtualbox kmods:
> > [...]
> > > Then the port needs to be patched?  It's been using an API deprecated
> > > for the last 15 years.  A simple
> > s/taskqueue_enqueue_fast/taskqueue_enqueue/
> > > will fix it.
> >
> > A patch is possible if a new __FreeBSD_version is created for that
> > API. Who can do that ?
> >
> There is no version pump and it is not needed. r296272 didn't have any
> behavior change. binary compatible is kept as well.

Actually, I broke binary compat in HEAD as 11.0 hasn't shipped yet and
11.0 won't be released for a while yet.  In this case I think ripping
the band-aid off is fine, especially since the replacement API has been
ready for such a long time (and goes back to 7.0).

-- 
John Baldwin


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