From owner-svn-src-stable-9@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 13:35:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E011065676; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe05.c2i.net [212.247.154.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3618FC2A; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:39 +0000 (UTC) X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, BAYES_50 Received: from [188.126.198.129] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO laptop002.hselasky.homeunix.org) by mailfe05.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.2) with ESMTPA id 228120122; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:35:37 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:33:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201201211344.05511.hselasky@c2i.net> <03DEA3A3-E5E4-4313-B82B-F0AD44F50ECD@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <03DEA3A3-E5E4-4313-B82B-F0AD44F50ECD@FreeBSD.org> X-Face: 'mmZ:T{)),Oru^0c+/}w'`gU1$ubmG?lp!=R4Wy\ELYo2)@'UZ24N@d2+AyewRX}mAm; Yp |U[@, _z/([?1bCfM{_"B<.J>mICJCHAzzGHI{y7{%JVz%R~yJHIji`y>Y}k1C4TfysrsUI -%GU9V5]iUZF&nRn9mJ'?&>O MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201211433.30626.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" , "re@FreeBSD.org" , "svn-src-stable@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org" , "Robert N. M. Watson" Subject: Re: svn commit: r230302 - in stable/9/sys/dev/usb: . controller X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for only the 9-stable src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:41 -0000 On Saturday 21 January 2012 13:59:10 Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On 21. Jan 2012, at 12:44 , Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Saturday 21 January 2012 13:22:02 Robert N. M. Watson wrote: > >> On 21 Jan 2012, at 11:30, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > >>>>>>> Author: hselasky > >>>>>>> Date: Wed Jan 18 07:57:17 2012 > >>>>>>> New Revision: 230302 > >>>>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230302 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Log: > >>>>>>> MFC r230032, r230050, r230090, r230091 and r228493. > >>>>>>> - Various XHCI and USB 3.0 related issues. > >>>>>>> - USB 3.0 HUBs should work after this change. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Should some portion of this be issued as an Errata Note against > >>>>>> supported 8.x and 9.x releases -- in particular, support for USB 3.0 > >>>>>> hubs? > >>>>> > >>>>> hrs @ already did that with the 9-release errata I believe. > >>>> > >>>> Sorry, I may have been unclear -- I meant Errata Note in the > >>>> freebsd-update sense, not as in the release note errata. > >>> > >>> I think there is no such notice at the present moment. > >> > >> Just to clarify, are you saying that: > >> > >> (1) We should not ever do an errata note + binary update for the most > >> important of these bug fixes, just wait for them to ship in FreeBSD > >> 8.3/9.1? > >> > >> (2) We should do errata notes + binary updates for the most important of > >> these bug fixes, but we need to let them settle for a while to ensure > >> there are no unexpected consequences/etc? > >> > >> Do we think that the impact of the USB 3.0 hub issue will be significant > >> to our userbase -- e.g., excluding use of USB on many recent systems? > > > > I mean (2). I'm not familiar with the process of binary updates. Does > > that mean I should commit fixes to the release branches in SVN instead > > of the stable ones? I think I maybe need some help there. Never done > > that before :-) > > Because you cannot. It would surely help if you could provide the > relevant part of the change as patch to re@ and you can find two samples > of ENs linked from the box in the right lower corner of the front page of > www.freebsd.org and providing parts of the text (ignore revisions etc for > now) would certainly help as well. Ok, I'll have a look at this once I find some time. --HPS