panics on 6.3-RELEASE in IP stack

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 20 17:17:18 UTC 2008


On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:

>> I concur, this fix should really be MFCed. The problem went away in 7.x due 
>> to a total rewrite. I am distracted by other stuff at the moment, so, 
>> starter's orders...
>
> This just bit me. The fix is in RELENG_6, but it is not present after the 
> -p1 tag. So updating to STABLE should fix the problem for Petr.
>
> Whilst 6 is no longer the STABLE branch, I think this really should go onto 
> 6 in case any other releases happen from that branch.

There are (tentative) plans to release a 6.4-RELEASE, but I don't think 
there's a schedule yet.  Developers should plan on continuing to merge 
changes, especially bug fixes, to RELENG_6.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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