Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 22:45:23 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Message-ID: <20130524054523.GA42525@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20130524052424.GF28865@glenbarber.us> References: <20130524010943.GA37252@icarus.home.lan> <20130524012117.GE1672@glenbarber.us> <20130524030351.GA39091@icarus.home.lan> <20130524031303.GC28865@glenbarber.us> <20130524033806.GA39720@icarus.home.lan> <20130524034244.GD28865@glenbarber.us> <20130524044035.GA40957@icarus.home.lan> <20130524045620.GE28865@glenbarber.us> <20130524051139.GA41712@icarus.home.lan> <20130524052424.GF28865@glenbarber.us>
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:24:24AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > Speaking entirely on behalf of myself now... > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:11:39PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > I think this will likely be included in errata notes for the release. > > > > I urge you to meet with others in Release Engineering and discuss this > > fully. This is major enough that, once fixed, it warrants an immediate > > binary update (to the kernel + if_fxp.ko) pushed out via freebsd-update. > > > > It can be solved with a -pN update after 8.4-RELEASE is out. Not that I'm calling the shots or anything, but: Let's go with that, combined with an included mention in the Errata section of the Release Notes as you initially mentioned. Sorry I can't be of more help; Charles' environment sounds like it would be better-suited for testing, and I'm sure Michael can test out a patch if/when someone gets around to poking at things. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
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