Re: Large number of SATA commits (MFCs) to RELENG_8

 Hello, Jeremy Chadwick!

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:50:38PM -0700
freebsd@jdc.parodius.com wrote about "Large number of SATA commits (MFCs) to RELENG_8":
> Folks who use SATA (speaking generally here because there's too much
> that got touched) should be aware:
> 
> Within the past ~7 hours there have been a *very* large number of
> commits by mav@ that pertain to SATA-related storage controllers and
> subsystems.
> 
> I would advocate that folks rebuild world/kernel and make sure there
> aren't any issues seen, or any quirks which were previously needed are
> no longer.
> 
> I haven't gone through *all* of the commits yet, but I do see some
> controller-centric things that got MFC'd, such as disabling of NCQ
> support on multiport Marvell 88SX61XX to relieve I/O timeouts when
> doing lots of I/O (common with ZFS).
> 
> Below are the commits.  Users should absolutely use cvsweb or similar
> tools to examine the commit message and see if anything relevant to
> their storage subsystems was modified.

I have no problems with yesturday build world+kernel. All compiled
ok and system boots ok.

But I have 1 question, why needed src/UPDATING? There are a lot of
changes in the tree since release date and there are no one in that file.

May be we need another one file, like src/ChangeLog ? ;-)

-- 
 Lystopad Olexandr 
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