svn commit: r230302 - in stable/9/sys/dev/usb: . controller

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 21 January 2012 13:22:02 Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2012, at 11:30, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >>>>> Author: hselasky
> >>>>> Date: Wed Jan 18 07:57:17 2012
> >>>>> New Revision: 230302
> >>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230302
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Log:
> >>>>> MFC r230032, r230050, r230090, r230091 and r228493.
> >>>>> - Various XHCI and USB 3.0 related issues.
> >>>>> - USB 3.0 HUBs should work after this change.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Should some portion of this be issued as an Errata Note against
> >>>> supported 8.x and 9.x releases -- in particular, support for USB 3.0
> >>>> hubs?
> >>> 
> >>> hrs @ already did that with the 9-release errata I believe.
> >> 
> >> Sorry, I may have been unclear -- I meant Errata Note in the
> >> freebsd-update sense, not as in the release note errata.
> > 
> > I think there is no such notice at the present moment.
> 
> Just to clarify, are you saying that:
> 
> (1) We should not ever do an errata note + binary update for the most
> important of these bug fixes, just wait for them to ship in FreeBSD
> 8.3/9.1?
> 
> (2) We should do errata notes + binary updates for the most important of
> these bug fixes, but we need to let them settle for a while to ensure
> there are no unexpected consequences/etc?
> 
> Do we think that the impact of the USB 3.0 hub issue will be significant to
> our userbase -- e.g., excluding use of USB on many recent systems?

I mean (2). I'm not familiar with the process of binary updates. Does that 
mean I should commit fixes to the release branches in SVN instead of the 
stable ones? I think I maybe need some help there. Never done that before :-)

--HPS