svn commit: r230302 - in stable/9/sys/dev/usb: . controller

Robert N. M. Watson rwatson at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 21 15:19:53 UTC 2012


On 21 Jan 2012, at 13:33, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

>>>> 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 :-)
>> 
>> Because you cannot.   It would surely help if you could provide the
>> relevant part of the change as patch to re@ and you can find two samples
>> of ENs linked from the box in the right lower corner of the front page of
>> www.freebsd.org and providing parts of the text (ignore revisions etc for
>> now) would certainly help as well.
> 
> Ok, I'll have a look at this once I find some time.

Sounds good -- the first step is really to let the change settle in the tree for a month or so to make sure we have a high confidence that it is without serious unfortunate side effects, and cleanly resolves any issues users are experiencing. Then, as Bjoern says, the next step is to contact re@ with a proposed patch and some draft text, and we can take it from there.

Robert


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