svn commit: r224490 - in stable/8/sys/dev/ata: . chipsets

[Andriy Gapon]

on 30/07/2011 17:42 Dimitry Andric said the following:
> On 2011-07-29 23:58, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Picking a random stable/8 sys commit:
>>
>> on 29/07/2011 12:58 Alexander Motin said the following:
>>> Modified:
>>>    stable/8/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.c
>>>    stable/8/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h
>>>    stable/8/sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-acard.c
>>>    stable/8/sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-acerlabs.c
>>>    stable/8/sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-intel.c
>>>    stable/8/sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-promise.c
>>> Directory Properties:
>>>    stable/8/sys/   (props changed)
>>>    stable/8/sys/amd64/include/xen/   (props changed)
>>>    stable/8/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/   (props changed)
>>>    stable/8/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/   (props changed)
>>>    stable/8/sys/contrib/pf/   (props changed)
>>>    stable/8/sys/geom/label/   (props changed)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Why do we have this now?
> 
> Because the merging instructions say:
> 
> "Changes to kernel code should be merged to sys. For instance, a change
> to the ichwd(4) driver should be merged to sys, not sys/dev/ichwd.
> Likewise, a change to the TCP/IP stack should be merged to sys, not
> sys/netinet."
> 
> So any merge from head to stable/x will also update the directories that
> already have svn:mergeinfo properties, namely those listed above.

Maybe my question was not clear enough, so I'll ask it differently.
Why do we have mergeinfo on stable/8/sys/geom/label now?

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Andriy Gapon