From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 17:09:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6C916A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:09:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from defiant4.noxa.de (defiant.noxa.de [212.60.197.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37A043D41 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:09:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arundel@h3c.de) Received: (qmail 14655 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2004 19:09:25 +0200 Received: from p5485623b.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO skatecity.) (84.133.98.59) by defiant.noxa.de with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Oct 2004 19:09:25 +0200 Received: from skatecity. (freebsd@skatecity. [127.0.0.1]) by skatecity. (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9CHDRH4046123 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:13:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from arundel@skatecity) Received: (from arundel@localhost) by skatecity. (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9CHDRdE046121 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:13:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from arundel) From: alexander Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:13:27 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041012171327.GA46089@skatecity> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20041011233035.GA15761@skatecity> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041011233035.GA15761@skatecity> Subject: Status of 4-STABLE branch. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:09:34 -0000 As far as I know there will be another 4.11-RELEASE. Doesn't this mean that patches should still be comitted to the source tree? I reported a problem a few weeks ago. LBA48 support for the Promise UDMA100 controller (PDC20265) seems to be broken. It's not a big problem to fix it, because it looks as if some previous patch got abandoned during a recent version change of some ata files. Here's the PR, btw: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/69009 However the patch I sent in got closed without even being comitted. The answer was this: "Upgrade to 5.3 when it get there (or a recent -current)." So...what actually is the use of a new 4-STABLE RELEASE? For me it seems as if the 4-STABLE branch is pretty much being left behind. Any comments to that?