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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:36:08 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: acpica in stable/8
Message-ID:  <201002050936.08434.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B6BD8B2.2060504@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <4B6BD8B2.2060504@icyb.net.ua>

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On Friday 05 February 2010 3:37:06 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> I would like to bring version of ACPICA in stable/8 to that of head, that is
> 20100121.
> 
> Here's svn status and svn diff outputs for the merge:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/stable-8-acpi.status.txt
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/stable-8-acpi.diff
> 
> I've performed this MFC by doing series of svn merges first to sys, then to
> usr.sbin/acpi.  I hope that this is a correct approach.
> I have some doubts because of heard suggestions that such merges should be done
> from vendor area.  But, OTOH, in head there were direct commits sys to fix
> consequences of merge from vendor area.
> Subversion gurus, please advise!

You should just MFC the changes from HEAD.  You should not merge from the
vendor branch directly into a stable branch.  The only time that would be
appropriate would be to merge a vendor change into a stable branch that
was never merged to HEAD (e.g. if some vendor software 'foo' was upgraded
from version 1 to version 2 in HEAD but was version 1 in a stable branch
and later a patch release 1.1 that fixed a security bug came out, then 1.1
would be imported into the vendor area and directly merged to the stable
branch).

-- 
John Baldwin



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