svn commit: r230302 - in stable/9/sys/dev/usb: . controller

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 21 January 2012 13:59:10 Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On 21. Jan 2012, at 12:44 , Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 January 2012 13:22:02 Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
> >> On 21 Jan 2012, at 11:30, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >>>>>>> Author: hselasky
> >>>>>>> Date: Wed Jan 18 07:57:17 2012
> >>>>>>> New Revision: 230302
> >>>>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230302
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Log:
> >>>>>>> MFC r230032, r230050, r230090, r230091 and r228493.
> >>>>>>> - Various XHCI and USB 3.0 related issues.
> >>>>>>> - USB 3.0 HUBs should work after this change.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Should some portion of this be issued as an Errata Note against
> >>>>>> supported 8.x and 9.x releases -- in particular, support for USB 3.0
> >>>>>> hubs?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> hrs @ already did that with the 9-release errata I believe.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Sorry, I may have been unclear -- I meant Errata Note in the
> >>>> freebsd-update sense, not as in the release note errata.
> >>> 
> >>> I think there is no such notice at the present moment.
> >> 
> >> Just to clarify, are you saying that:
> >> 
> >> (1) We should not ever do an errata note + binary update for the most
> >> important of these bug fixes, just wait for them to ship in FreeBSD
> >> 8.3/9.1?
> >> 
> >> (2) We should do errata notes + binary updates for the most important of
> >> these bug fixes, but we need to let them settle for a while to ensure
> >> there are no unexpected consequences/etc?
> >> 
> >> Do we think that the impact of the USB 3.0 hub issue will be significant
> >> to our userbase -- e.g., excluding use of USB on many recent systems?
> > 
> > I mean (2). I'm not familiar with the process of binary updates. Does
> > that mean I should commit fixes to the release branches in SVN instead
> > of the stable ones? I think I maybe need some help there. Never done
> > that before :-)
> 
> Because you cannot.   It would surely help if you could provide the
> relevant part of the change as patch to re@ and you can find two samples
> of ENs linked from the box in the right lower corner of the front page of
> www.freebsd.org and providing parts of the text (ignore revisions etc for
> now) would certainly help as well.

Ok, I'll have a look at this once I find some time.

--HPS