Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:37:45 +0300 From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc MAKEDEV src/sys/conf files.i386 majors src/sys/i386/conf LINT Message-ID: <416546A9.5040608@aueb.gr> In-Reply-To: <20041007213329I.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <200410071145.i97BjLm6013567@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041007213329I.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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Makoto Matsushita wrote: > dds> Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > ^^^^^^^^ > Would you please let me know why this driver is directly committed to > RELENG_4, not to HEAD nor RELENG_5? Sure. This is the email exchange I had with re@. Maybe I should have added a comment in the commit message. - Diomidis Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:14:51 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Direct commits to RELENG_4 Message-ID: <20040917151450.GC25742@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:44:25PM +0300, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: >> I'd like your permission to directly commit two things to RELENG_4, >> without an MFC from [56].X: >> >> 1. A change to set suspend mode on an ATA disk via a sysctl variable. >> The original patch was posted on >> >> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=1e622c3b4db7fa17&seekm=9vpsbs%242umu%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw#link1 >> >> I have been keeping it up to date since 2002, and I have seen others >> using it as well. In 5.x its utility has been subsumed by ATAng and >> ports/sysutils/ataidle, so there is no reason to include it there. >> >> 2. Commit the driver for the PCL-724 ISA card identified in i386/46238. >> The driver core is simple, but the infrastructure between 4.X and >> [56].X is, I believe, sufficiently different to make its integration >> into 4.X via an MFC from [56].X at least as risky as a direct commit. >> Approved. Thanks. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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