Difference between FreeBSD-7 and FreeBSD-8 in tasting?

[Ulf Lilleengen]

Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-geom.
>
>   I'm porting geom_raid5 to FreeBSD8, and have strange problem: when
> module is loaded after system start (with kldload) it tastes its
> consumers (configured early) and creates array.
>
>   When it is loaded on boot time (with /boot/loader.conf), it doesn't
> see array components at all, as if taste is not called...
>
>   It works on FreeBSD7 flawless in both cases...
>
>   I've changed only two things:
>     (1) allow root_mount_hold() tocken to be NULL
>     (2) change working thread creation from kthread_create() to kproc_kthread_add().
>
>  What are other differences in GEOM between 7 and 8?
>
>   
Just to mention: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/geom_raid5/

In case you want a repo to submit patches against for people to test. I 
started to review it a while ago, but got bored too soon :) Nice to see 
someone works on getting this into the tree.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen