On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:44:17AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080729 08:47] wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Ken, > > 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.
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