Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:44:05 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-stable@freebsd.org" <svn-src-stable@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "re@FreeBSD.org" <re@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org" <svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r230302 - in stable/9/sys/dev/usb: . controller Message-ID: <201201211344.05511.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <85A5A9E5-401A-414E-93B0-BC4212152AF7@freebsd.org> References: <201201180757.q0I7vHiw029172@svn.freebsd.org> <201201211230.28237.hselasky@c2i.net> <85A5A9E5-401A-414E-93B0-BC4212152AF7@freebsd.org>
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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 :-) --HPS
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