From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 20 09:16:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02306 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA02233 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA14139; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:15:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA29216; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:15:44 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:15:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710201615.KAA29216@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: <19971020092256.EF31838@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19971020092256.EF31838@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Here's a confirmation that Mr. KATO's hack for the lockmgr panic on > vn devices does also fix the problems on 2.2.5. > > I would strongly recommend that we apply this hack, instead of > shipping 2.2.5 in the current state, where it's got a high probability > that our users can't successfully run a `make release' on it without > hitting a panic! My advice is to 'just do it'. I suspect Jordan must have the patch on his build box in order for him to roll the release, and since there are few hours left to do it in, it should be done ASAP. With no 'official' FreeBSD-RE experience, I'd be afraid to get yelled at as not understanding all the issues, so I don't dare. :) :) Nate