Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:50:05 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upcoming ABI Breakage in RELENG_7 Message-ID: <20080801125005.GI97161@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20080801124417.GA76659@elvis.mu.org> References: <1217346345.12322.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <20080801124417.GA76659@elvis.mu.org>
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--BRF4e1IEQp0HoEFj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:44:17AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> [080729 08:47] wrote: > >=20 > > Normally the FreeBSD Project tries very hard to avoid ABI breakage in > > "Stable Branches". However occasionally the fix for a bug can not be > > implemented without ABI breakage, and it is decided that the fix > > warrants the impact of the ABI breakage. We have one of those > > situations coming along for RELENG_7 (what will become FreeBSD 7.1). > > The ABI breakage should only impact kernel modules that are not part of > > the baseline system (those will be patched by the MFC) which deal with > > advisory locks. As such the impact should not cause many people > > problems. > >=20 > > The work that will be MFCed fixes issues with filesystem advisory locks, > > and moves the advisory locks list from filesystem-private data > > structures into the vnode structure. > >=20 > > The MFC will be done by Kostantin Belousov some time this coming Friday > > (August 1st, 2008) if you have concerns and want to watch for it. >=20 > Ken, >=20 > Can you point at a cvs/svn log or two that details the change and > why? MFCed as r181119. See the log for all details. --BRF4e1IEQp0HoEFj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiTBn0ACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4g9+QCcCcUYWfyVDLMXYyYUbE6rkwxu Lm4AoOcvJNogNIX8MCQRhV3H9uNQFbm6 =Z8AX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BRF4e1IEQp0HoEFj--
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