KBI unexpexted change in stable/11 ?

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 05:13:48PM +0200, Gregory Byshenk wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 05:35:51PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:39:46PM +0200, Gregory Byshenk wrote:
> > > 
> > > Did you rebuild your virtualbox and nvidia modules for your new
> > > kernel? If you build a new kernel, then you need to rebuild any
> > > modules that were installed from ports for the new version.
> > 
> > Only for -CURRENT, not for -STABLE:
> > 
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2018-March/159649.html
> > 
> > John Baldwin: "In theory we try to not break existing kernel
> > modules on a stable branch.  That is, one should be able to kldload an
> > if_iwn.ko built on 11.0 on a 11-stable kernel."
> 
> I understand that this is true for standard kernel modules, but
> I have frequently run into problems loading _ports_ modules on
> a new kernel - including in STABLE.

This is general _kernel_ rule, for loading all modules, mostly for
third-party modules.