svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient

[Andriy Gapon]

on 01/12/2011 23:42 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 11/30/2011 14:52, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>>> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, but I've never heard of an MFC to a
>>>> Release branch. (As far as I know, if it ever happens, it's for a
>>>> serious errata or security issue.)
>>>
>>> You are correct sir. :)
>>>
>> So how would I ever see this in an official release as an errata fix ?
> 
> At this point you likely won't.  The vast majority of patches to releases are
> only for security advisories.  Very few errata are merged back to releases
> currently.  It may be that we are too hesitant to do so, but the manpower
> overhead of actually getting the changes merged back and getting appropriate
> folks to sign off on everything is extremely high (and the exact process for
> getting an EN approved is not very clear or really even documented to my
> knowledge).
> 

Just to clarify - the fix will be in the future (official) releases from 8, 9
and so on branches.

-- 
Andriy Gapon