freebsd stable - Jan 2015 - COMPAT_FREEBSD8 [was: Re: IPSec and racoon issue...]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 19:09:44 -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
 > On Jan 1, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Chris Watson <bsdunix44 at gmail.com>
wrote:
 > 
 > > I didn't even think to check
 > > the kernel. I kept looking at everything else, src, UPDATING,
commits, etc.
 > 
 > 	sysctl kern.conftxt
 > 
 > is worth memorizing.

Off your topic, but to aid memorising this, looking at mine on:
FreeBSD x200.smithi.id.au 9.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-PRERELEASE #0: Fri 
Nov 14 18:41:59 EST 2014 root at x200.smithi.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
amd64

options COMPAT_FREEBSD7
options COMPAT_FREEBSD6
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4
options COMPAT_FREEBSD32

Should I be surprised to find no COMPAT_FREEBSD8 ?

cheers, Ian

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 19:09:44 -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>  > On Jan 1, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Chris Watson <bsdunix44 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > I didn't even think to check
>  > > the kernel. I kept looking at everything else, src, UPDATING,
> commits, etc.
>  >
>  >      sysctl kern.conftxt
>  >
>  > is worth memorizing.
>
> Off your topic, but to aid memorising this, looking at mine on:
> FreeBSD x200.smithi.id.au 9.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-PRERELEASE #0: Fri
> Nov 14 18:41:59 EST 2014 root at
x200.smithi.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
>
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD7
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD6
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD5
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD4
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD32
>
> Should I be surprised to find no COMPAT_FREEBSD8 ?
>
> cheers, Ian
>
Thanks to the magic of symbol versioning, I don't think there has a
COMPAT_FREEBSD8 or COMPAT_FREEBSD9. With luck and care, there should never
be one again.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com