From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 19:36:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AD51065670; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:36:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F709150855; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E9DD555.4070402@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:36:53 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Smith References: <201110181345.p9IDjG8q076017@svn.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201110181345.p9IDjG8q076017@svn.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r226510 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf ia64/conf sparc64/conf X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:36:55 -0000 On 10/18/2011 06:45, Ken Smith wrote: > Author: kensmith > Date: Tue Oct 18 13:45:16 2011 > New Revision: 226510 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/226510 > > Log: > Comment out the sbp(4) driver for architectures that support it. > > As part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle this was done in stable/8 (r199112) > but was left alone in head so people could work on fixing an issue that > caused boot failure on some motherboards. Apparently nobody has worked > on it and we are getting reports of boot failure with the 9.0 test builds. > So this time I'll comment out the driver in head (still hoping someone > will work on it) and MFC to stable/9. Hope is not a plan. :) How about adding a comment to the effect that "this is broken, and needs someone to adopt it"? At least that would explain why it's commented out so that people like me don't un-comment it and wonder why their box won't boot (true story). It might also attract an actual human to look at it ... Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/