svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:23:32 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 01/12/2011 23:42 John Baldwin said the following:
> > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> On 11/30/2011 14:52, Rick Macklem wrote:
> >>>> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, but I've never heard of an MFC to a
> >>>> Release branch. (As far as I know, if it ever happens, it's for a
> >>>> serious errata or security issue.)
> >>>
> >>> You are correct sir. :)
> >>>
> >> So how would I ever see this in an official release as an errata fix ?
> > 
> > At this point you likely won't.  The vast majority of patches to releases are
> > only for security advisories.  Very few errata are merged back to releases
> > currently.  It may be that we are too hesitant to do so, but the manpower
> > overhead of actually getting the changes merged back and getting appropriate
> > folks to sign off on everything is extremely high (and the exact process for
> > getting an EN approved is not very clear or really even documented to my
> > knowledge).
> > 
> 
> Just to clarify - the fix will be in the future (official) releases from 8, 9
> and so on branches.

Yes, but without EN's there is no currently supported release a user can use
to get this bug fix.  I still think we are too hesitant to merge EN's.

-- 
John Baldwin