Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:19:49 +0000 From: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "re@FreeBSD.org" <re@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-stable@freebsd.org" <svn-src-stable@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org" <svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r230302 - in stable/9/sys/dev/usb: . controller Message-ID: <7E058E8B-EB49-4A72-8555-A15E358C09F8@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201201211433.30626.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <201201211344.05511.hselasky@c2i.net> <03DEA3A3-E5E4-4313-B82B-F0AD44F50ECD@FreeBSD.org> <201201211433.30626.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On 21 Jan 2012, at 13:33, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >>>> 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. Sounds good -- the first step is really to let the change settle in the tree for a month or so to make sure we have a high confidence that it is without serious unfortunate side effects, and cleanly resolves any issues users are experiencing. Then, as Bjoern says, the next step is to contact re@ with a proposed patch and some draft text, and we can take it from there. Robert
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