The Handbook says that if freebsd-update applies kernel patches the system has to be rebooted. However (thinking with the perspective of a user who is new to FreeBSD), how are they supposed to know what parts are kernel-related? And then also is it necessary to reboot if a new kernel module gets installed or can it just be reloaded (if so - how?). Additionally if it doesn't interfere with the Handbook style, what about placing a link from the update page to "Managing Services in FreeBSD" i.e. ... the affected applications [and services] should be restarted ... I hope I'm not too picky - thanks for the great documentation that comes with FreeBSD :-)
A commit references this bug: Author: carlavilla Date: Thu Jan 23 20:41:17 UTC 2020 New revision: 53811 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53811 Log: Clarify when the user needs to reboot the system in the update section of the handbook PR: 195218 Submitted by: freebsd@simweb.ch Patch by: carlavilla@ Approved by: bcr@(mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23263 Changes: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml
Fixed.