USB mouse problems

Aniruddha mailing_list at orange.nl
Mon Oct 6 19:58:17 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:03 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> It means the original fix was applied to CURRENT (what is also known as
> HEAD), and then "backported" to RELENG_7 (what you would call FreeBSD
> 7.x-STABLE) on 2008/03/20.  "MFC" stands for "Merge From CURRENT".
> 
> You can confirm this by looking at cvsweb for the file in question:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/usb/ums.c
> 
> The change for HEAD/CURRENT was made in Revision 1.98 (date = Mar 12)
> The MFC to RELENG_7 was made in Revision 1.96.2.1 (date = Mar 20)
> 
> If you csup your src tree (use /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile)
> the patched code will be downloaded and used.  You'll have to rebuild
> world to get the changes, of course.  See the FreeBSD Handbook for doing
> a csup as well as for rebuilding world.
> 

Thanks for your help and patience. If I'm not mistaken I can also
install 7.1 Beta. It would be logical to assume it contains the fix
right?


-- 
Regards,

Aniruddha






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