I think what "would be cool" would be to have a RELENG_4_4_BUGFIX tree which was for bugfixes, but was feature frozen. It shouldn't get new features like dirprefs (otherwise its difficult to differentiate it from -STABLE itself) but it should get bugfixes. That way FreeBSD would wind up with some extremely stable and feature frozen code.
Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to volunteer to engineer such a branching scheme... On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > On Dec 09, at 12:11 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > In anycase, your patches look fine. In fact, you not only applied > > my fixes you also applied a fix in the delayed-ack check that was > > made (by someone else) some time after 4.2Rel -- the callout_pending() > > check in DELAY_ACK() fixed a serious bug in prior releases all by itself. > > Kudos! > > I know it's been discussed before, but if this is considered a "serious > bug", shouldn't it also be applied to supported-but-not-stable versions? > > RELENG_(release - 1) seems to be the target of "backported" security fixes, > and I have no problem with that - a line has to be drawn somewhere - but > I (and likely many others) would love to see things such as this (things > that aren't security focused) be made to RELENG_(release - 1). > > If I hadn't caught the DELACK thread on this list, I never would have > known that TCP/IP throughput could be fixed/enhanced so easily - for me, > that is, I only applied a patch, but pro'lly not for Matt. > > Another candidate for this sort of thing I'd like to see "backported" to > RELENG_(release - 1) would be DIRPREFS, but that might be asking too > much; I don't know how many modules were hacked for that. > > I took it upon myself to add ICH sound support to my 4.2REL kernel and > another 4.3REL kernel, based on the original patches submitted. This is > an example of what pro'lly could be omitted from RELENG_(release - 1), > but a FreeBSD.org sanctioned facility where the likes of us unsupported- > or-supported-but-not-stable hackers could upload/submit patches would > be a nice thing. > > Just my two-cents' worth of thoguht food. > Dave > > -- > ______________________ ______________________ > \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ > \________________/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\________________/ > http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
