SVN r296272 breaks virtualbox

Howard Su howard0su at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 07:06:37 UTC 2016


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.

And taskqueue_enqueue_fast should and is able to be replaced with
taskqueue_enqueue long time ago.Blind replace taskqueue_enqueue_fast with
taskqueue_enqueue is enough.

-Howard

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