From owner-svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 22:23:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4DCC1065673; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 22:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487198FC1C; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 22:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id AAA19456; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:23:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1RWF2T-0007nd-E7; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:23:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4ED7FE64.9010909@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:23:32 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Saad References: <1769030615.700252.1322693541806.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <4ED6B7CA.7050108@FreeBSD.org> <201112011642.53968.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201112011642.53968.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:17:29 +0000 Cc: Rick Macklem , John Baldwin , svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein , Doug Barton , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Rick Macklem , svn-src-stable-7@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:23:50 -0000 on 01/12/2011 23:42 John Baldwin said the following: > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton 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). > Just to clarify - the fix will be in the future (official) releases from 8, 9 and so on branches. -- Andriy Gapon