From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 23 12:13:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1934C37B8E4; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA09141; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200004231913.MAA09141@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday In-Reply-To: <200004231909.MAA63432@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Apr 23, 2000 12:09:18 pm" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > : > :In message <200004231855.LAA63309@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > : > :> There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... > :> that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that > :> is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be > :> recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. > : > :Matt, this is not a valid reason either. > : > :Unless there is *urgent* and *overriding* reasons, and that basically > :means that the security-officer says so, all changes must be shaken > :out in -current first. > : > :That's just the way it is Matt. Get used to it. > : > :-- > :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > I think you're confused, Poul. I've gone over the commits made > to the tree by people over the last few months and frankly there > are dozens of simultanious -current and -stable commits. A quick > check shows that most of them are trivial bug fixes. And look at how many of them had to be patched, re-merged, etc. IMHO people are getting way way to loose with MFC right after a commit. I don't even want to see a MFC for a 1 character spelling fixed MFC'ed in less than 3 days anymore. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message