On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:04:39AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> The one practical annoyment for me out of all this is that we broke
> binary compatibility in a reasonably major way.  If you use dhclient to
> obtain an IP address you now can't boot a kernel built after a certain
> date and have that work with an older userland.  For example, if someone
> boots a NetBSD 5.0 kernel (when that appears) with a NetBSD 4.0 userland
> - you lose.

Are you sure? I think this combination still works, but we broke binary
compat between certain versions of -current.

If this does indeed not work, we certainly need to fix that.

Martin