SVN r296272 breaks virtualbox

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 2 17:26:31 UTC 2016


On Wednesday, March 02, 2016 07:27:45 AM Kurt Jaeger 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 ?

You don't need a new bump.  taskqueue_enqueue has worked fine for a "fast"
taskqueue since 700013, so you can use that version.  OTOH, I would be
surprised if VirtualBox worked on FreeBSD 6.x.

-- 
John Baldwin


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