Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:24:24AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> Speaking entirely on behalf of myself now...
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:11:39PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > I think this will likely be included in errata notes for the release.
> > 
> > I urge you to meet with others in Release Engineering and discuss this
> > fully.  This is major enough that, once fixed, it warrants an immediate
> > binary update (to the kernel + if_fxp.ko) pushed out via freebsd-update.
> > 
> 
> It can be solved with a -pN update after 8.4-RELEASE is out.

Not that I'm calling the shots or anything, but:

Let's go with that, combined with an included mention in the Errata
section of the Release Notes as you initially mentioned.

Sorry I can't be of more help; Charles' environment sounds like it would
be better-suited for testing, and I'm sure Michael can test out a patch
if/when someone gets around to poking at things.

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