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	Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient
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On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 11/30/2011 14:52, Rick Macklem wrote:
> >> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, but I've never heard of an MFC to a
> >> Release branch. (As far as I know, if it ever happens, it's for a
> >> serious errata or security issue.)
> >
> > You are correct sir. :)
> >
> So how would I ever see this in an official release as an errata fix ?

At this point you likely won't.  The vast majority of patches to releases are
only for security advisories.  Very few errata are merged back to releases
currently.  It may be that we are too hesitant to do so, but the manpower
overhead of actually getting the changes merged back and getting appropriate
folks to sign off on everything is extremely high (and the exact process for
getting an EN approved is not very clear or really even documented to my
knowledge).

-- 
John Baldwin