Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:36:53 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r226510 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf ia64/conf sparc64/conf Message-ID: <4E9DD555.4070402@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201110181345.p9IDjG8q076017@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201110181345.p9IDjG8q076017@svn.freebsd.org>
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On 10/18/2011 06:45, Ken Smith wrote: > Author: kensmith > Date: Tue Oct 18 13:45:16 2011 > New Revision: 226510 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/226510 > > Log: > Comment out the sbp(4) driver for architectures that support it. > > As part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle this was done in stable/8 (r199112) > but was left alone in head so people could work on fixing an issue that > caused boot failure on some motherboards. Apparently nobody has worked > on it and we are getting reports of boot failure with the 9.0 test builds. > So this time I'll comment out the driver in head (still hoping someone > will work on it) and MFC to stable/9. Hope is not a plan. :) How about adding a comment to the effect that "this is broken, and needs someone to adopt it"? At least that would explain why it's commented out so that people like me don't un-comment it and wonder why their box won't boot (true story). It might also attract an actual human to look at it ... Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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