freebsd stable - May 2011 - Heads up: you'll need to do a fresh "config KERNEL" etc

Hi,

Just a heads up that after a commit going into stable/8 in a few
minutes, you'll need to do a fresh kernel build, starting at
"config GENERIC", including rebuilding the NFS related modules.

rick

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:05:41PM -0400, Rick Macklem
wrote:
> Just a heads up that after a commit going into stable/8 in a few
> minutes, you'll need to do a fresh kernel build, starting at
> "config GENERIC", including rebuilding the NFS related modules.
Rick,

Can you explain why a kernel reconfig would be required if the
kernel configuration (e.g. GENERIC) hasn't been changed?

http://www.freshbsd.org/?branch=RELENG_8&project=freebsd

Possibly the commit site doesn't have the most recent commits?

I guess what I'm asking is: why is a kernel reconfig required if only
the NFS code itself changed?  A buildworld/buildkernel should be
sufficient, no?

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.               PGP 4BD6C0CB |

On 05/14/11 20:05, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a heads up that after a commit going into stable/8 in a few
> minutes, you'll need to do a fresh kernel build, starting at
> "config GENERIC", including rebuilding the NFS related modules.
>
> rick
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>
Sensational!  With this update, I finally get NFS client performance
as good as (or better than) 7.x, and I have a warm, fuzzy feeling
about 8.x at last.  (Except for SCHED_ULE, which gives terrible
performance on a single-core machine with a compute-bound process
running in the background.)  Thanks!              -- George Mitchell