HEADS UP: recompile network interface modules

Angelo Turetta aturetta at commit.it
Wed Jul 28 00:51:22 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:32 AM


>
> If you rebuild all your kernel modules every time you build a new kernel,
> this won't affect you.  However, this will affect you if you use any
> customer kernel modules implementing network device drivers, such as third
> party device driver modules.  I've changed the size of 'struct ifnet',
> which requires that said drivers be recompiled.
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee
Research

This seems like one of those changes worth increasing FreeBSD version
number.

Angelo Turetta



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