nve(4) timeout fix

[Mike Jakubik]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 14:32, Marcus Frings wrote:
>   
>> * Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Also on the subject of nVidia NICs, I've fixed the device timeout
>>> problem on nve(4). It appears that some revisions of the hardware don't
>>> send interrupts on tx completion, which caused watchdog timeouts under
>>> low load. We should take this hardware quirk into account for the nfe
>>> port as well.
>>>       
>> I also applied this patch to my FreeBSD 6.1RC (Asus A8N-E) for testing
>> and it works perfectly. By now I don't have any timeouts anymore!
>>
>> Will it be added to the official release of 6.1 or CURRENT?
>>     
>
> It's in current but is probably too late for 6.1.
>
>   

Why is it too late? If it fixes a known stability problem, then why cant 
it be commited? If no commits are allowed during the -RC phase, then 
what is 6.1-RELEASE waiting for?