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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 2021 10:03:40 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-branches@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 000aad3d093a - stable/12 - loader: allocate properly aligned buffer for network packet
Message-ID:  <87d1289f-7478-8cad-addb-e7f36c112a20@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <YV6Yrede5/x5NM7E@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202110070337.1973bgRH073900@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YV6OVKE6dNy%2BkigE@FreeBSD.org> <CACNAnaFqymg6QQa1ATd0dyreXBa0-u-5Hb=kjjs2igjASFRwEw@mail.gmail.com> <YV6Yrede5/x5NM7E@FreeBSD.org>

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On 07/10/2021 09:50, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 01:20:05AM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 1:06 AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:37:42AM +0000, Kyle Evans wrote:
>>>> commit 000aad3d093a376bb1104a284b4102149db43155
>>>>
>>>>   loader: allocate properly aligned buffer for network packet
>>>>
>>>>   Use memalign(4, size) to ensure we have properly aligned buffer.
>>>>
>>>>   (cherry picked from commit 659bf32dfc595b6cd6aeda7f05cb57872c64d2d1)
>>>
>>> I don't understand, so this is a merge of the commit from master (main) to
>>> stablle/12 which had then been reverted?  So why do the merge in the first
>>> place?
>>
>> Because commit + revert pairs are noise in the MFC tracker that
>> distracts from actual candidates for merging.
> 
> Sounds like MFC tracker should be fixed then, as now it is noise in
> the tool (tracker) vs. noise in the branch.  Tools come and go, and
> code stays forever.

I agree.
And the MFC tracker (mfc.kernelnomicon.org) has "Never MFC" button if you 
changed your mind about a commit.


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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