svn commit: r243627 - head/sys/kern

Robert N. M. Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 27 23:59:15 UTC 2012


On 27 Nov 2012, at 23:29, Andre Oppermann wrote:

>>>>>> Andre.. this breaks incoming connections.  TCP is immediately reset and never even gets to the
>>>>>> listener process.  You need to back out of fix this urgently please.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just found out and fixed it.  Sorry for the breakage.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to see a much more thorough use of "Reviewed by:" in socket and TCP-related commits -- this
>>>> is very sensitive code, and a second pair of eyes is always valuable.  Post-commit review is not a
>>>> substitute.  Looking back over similar changes in the socket code over the last two years, I see
>>>> that almost all have reviewers, so I think it would be reasonable to consider it mandatory for these
>>>> subsystems at this point.  The good news is that we have lots of people with expertise in it.
>>> 
>>> Good to see you becoming more active again. :-)  And yes,
>>> you have a point there.
>> 
>> Yes -- this is only about three weeks old, however; for the prior six-twelve months, I've been fairly non-existent in FreeBSD-land due to outside obligations :-).
> 
> Just saw that I did indeed send you a review request three weeks ago. ;-)
> At the end of a rather long email though.

Yes, indeed -- no patch was attached, and it followed quite a long e-mail on your plans to rewrite the TCP stack. I'm afraid that went onto the "read this later as time permits" pile as I was at a conference, rather than the fast-path "oh, quickly review this patch" pile. However, simply committing the patch rather than trying a bit harder to find a reviewer isn't the right answer either. To maximise the likelihood of a review, construct an e-mail with a subject line like "Review request: (patch description)", attach the patch, and include a proposed commit message.

Robert


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