cvs commit: src/etc MAKEDEV src/sys/conf files.i386 majors src/sys/i386/conf LINT

[Diomidis Spinellis]

Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> dds>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
>                                        ^^^^^^^^
> Would you please let me know why this driver is directly committed to
> RELENG_4, not to HEAD nor RELENG_5? 

Sure.  This is the email exchange I had with re at .  Maybe I should have 
added a comment in the commit message. - Diomidis

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:14:51 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr>
Cc: re at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Direct commits to RELENG_4
Message-ID: <20040917151450.GC25742 at electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:44:25PM +0300, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
 >> I'd like your permission to directly commit two things to RELENG_4,
 >> without an MFC from [56].X:
 >>
 >> 1. A change to set suspend mode on an ATA disk via a sysctl variable.
 >> The original patch was posted on
 >>
 >> 
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=1e622c3b4db7fa17&seekm=9vpsbs%242umu%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw#link1
 >>
 >> I have been keeping it up to date since 2002, and I have seen others
 >> using it as well.  In 5.x its utility has been subsumed by ATAng and
 >> ports/sysutils/ataidle, so there is no reason to include it there.
 >>
 >> 2. Commit the driver for the PCL-724 ISA card identified in i386/46238.
 >>  The driver core is simple, but the infrastructure between 4.X and
 >> [56].X is, I believe, sufficiently different to make its integration
 >> into 4.X via an MFC from [56].X at least as risky as a direct commit.
 >>


Approved.  Thanks.

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