Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:03:20 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <20080605130320.GC40682@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20080605125105.GA79727@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> <BFF61274-C192-4361-9DEB-93DED2E02CA7@netconsonance.com> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <484736E0.6090004@samsco.org> <C69AC20A-225C-478D-B0C8-B2F018B555C6@netconsonance.com> <4847D5F8.80605@FreeBSD.org> <20080605125105.GA79727@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Hi, all,
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:51:05AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:03:04PM +0100, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> > Jo Rhett wrote:
> >>
> >> I am suggesting that given that the current bug list for 6.3-RELEASE is
> >> both (a) too large and (b) breaks things that work fine in 6.2 ... that I
> >> think pushing 6.2 (the real stable release) into EoL is a bit rushed. I
> >> sympathize with the development costs of maintaining old versions. Again,
> >> I will help in any way I can.
> >
> > I'm sorry to hear about the problems you've been having.
>
> If the exact regression between 6.2 and 6.3 can be tracked down, great.
> If it's in a specific driver, CVS commit logs or cvsweb will come in
> handy. Otherwise, if it's some larger piece of code ("ohai i revamped
> the intrupt handlar!"), chances of finding it are slimmer. I'm a bit
> disappointed that Jo hasn't explicitly mentioned what's broken in 6.3
> that's affecting him, because that might help everyone. Heck, I'll even
> add it to my Commonly reported issue wiki page. PRs would be good, but
> I'll gladly take past mailing list discussions.
Since we, too, use quite a few machines in production, most of
them 6.3 BTW, i spent some time searching the PRs with the
keyword "3ware" and varying combinations of release, severity, etc.
I was not able to find anything with respect to that hardware
that wasn't recorded as early as 6.1. em0 lockups were fixed
around 6.1 for us with Jack Vogels kind assistance (and hardware
provided by us ;-)
Kind regards,
Patrick M. Hausen
Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit
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