On 21 Jan 2012, at 13:33, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >>>> 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.
Sounds good -- the first step is really to let the change settle in the tree for a month or so to make sure we have a high confidence that it is without serious unfortunate side effects, and cleanly resolves any issues users are experiencing. Then, as Bjoern says, the next step is to contact re@ with a proposed patch and some draft text, and we can take it from there. Robert_______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
