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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday
Message-ID:  <200004231913.MAA09141@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <200004231909.MAA63432@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Apr 23, 2000 12:09:18 pm"

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> 
> :
> :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


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