> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 8:08 PM John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2/11/19 4:26 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >> Author: pkelsey > > >> Date: Mon Feb 11 23:24:39 2019 > > >> New Revision: 344027 > > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/344027 > > >> > > >> Log: > > >> MFC r343291: > > >> Convert vmx(4) to being an iflib driver. > > > > > > I strongly object to this MFC, given the current number > > > of 12.0 RELEASE related iflib problems we have it is > > > foolish of us to iflib any more drivers in 12.0 > > > > This isn't the release branch though and presumably we have some time > > before > > 12.1 ships. If there are reports of vmx(4) breakage on stable before 12.1 > > we could always revert this commit then? > > > > I've heard of some EN's for 12.0 for iflib fixes. Are those fixes in > > stable/12 > > yet or are we still waiting for them to land in HEAD and/or be merged? > > > > iflib.c is currently the same between head and stable/12. I've found and > fixed a number of iflib bugs by developing the iflib version of the vmx(4) > driver, and it's also being fielded in a product. I'm also aware that not > all current driver problems are necessarily iflib problems. I think we'd > be better off letting this version of vmx(4) ride it out in stable/12 until > such time as we discover an actual horror that we then feel we need to > react to in some way other than just going ahead and fixing it.
It can ride it out in head just fine, give it 3 months... plenty of time before any 12.1. stable/12 IS NOT A TEST GROUND. -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
