Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Jason Thorpe wrote:

> > Is it worth keeping the boottime symbol about so that a netbsd-9 vmstat
> > binary will still work with a -current kernel?  We could possibly wrap
> > boottime with a COMPAT_90 check too?.
>
> Define "work".  A dummy symbol would have no valid contents.  I guess
> if you call that "work" then go ahead?
>
> The real problem here is that vmstat insists on finding the kernel
> symbols even if it's not going to use them, which is kind of silly.

That is indeed the silly(TM) thing.  Against a live kernel, it just
needs the boottime symbol to exist.  It uses the kern.boottime sysctl
to get the boottime from a live kernel.

Cheers,
Simon.