From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 6 17:27:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2071065673; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:27:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B9E8FC17; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [96.47.65.170]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A5D5D46B2A; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:27:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD1EAB915; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:27:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Andriy Gapon Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:24:03 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p8; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <1769030615.700252.1322693541806.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <201112011642.53968.jhb@freebsd.org> <4ED7FE64.9010909@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4ED7FE64.9010909@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112061224.03891.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:27:16 -0500 (EST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:33:19 +0000 Cc: Doug Barton , svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Saad , Alfred Perlstein , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem Subject: Re: svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:27:17 -0000 On Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:23:32 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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. Yes, but without EN's there is no currently supported release a user can use to get this bug fix. I still think we are too hesitant to merge EN's. -- John Baldwin