From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 1 7:12:35 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F8137B405 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4576E43E6A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:12:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 31834 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 14:12:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Aug 2002 14:12:00 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g71EBxuR060709; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:11:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020801.205458.41625650.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:12:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica ac Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, grog@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, imp@bsdimp.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Aug-2002 Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > Hi, > >> In message <20020731.135639.119005865.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >> >> >Actually, just include an EDITED version of changes. The number of >> >changes tends to be long, and a summary of them would be better. >> > >> >Of course, given that this is vendor code, and we're not quite working >> >yet, I don't think that people will CARE if they don't know exactly >> >what changed and why. Look at some of the gcc import messages which >> >basically said "Upgrade to version N". >> >> Well, considering that ACPI can be quite a stumbling block for laptop >> owners, I just wanted to minimal amount of text in the commit-msg >> which would indicate to me if I needed to re-test on my laptop or >> if this was likely to be a no-op for it. > > Then, is importing CHANGES.txt good enough for your requirement? > If so, I'm glad to ask Intel people and do so from the next vendor > import. I believe that it's the best solution for many people. > > I'm not person from Intel, also not a ACPI CA developer actually, so > information I can get is very limited other than CHANGES.txt. > My private time is limited (especially now) as well as other > committers, however I believe I did my best within my time and am > going to make efforts as possible. > If you require to me more things, then maybe I'm not suitable person > for importing ACPI CA unfortunately :) I can pass this work to other > committer if necessary. > But, I want to continue this actually and to follow traditional way of > vendor import into FreeBSD CVS repo. May I? I think your commit was fine Iwasaki-san. For most other 3rd party software vendor imports just say that it is an upgrade to version X.Y which is what you did. One thing that might address people's concerns if you have the time is to send an e-mail followup to the commit message listing any major bugfixes or new features. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message