Re: NetBSD 5 STABLE wm0 panic

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On Wednesday 03 June 2009 09:34:37 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:57:07PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> >   Hi there.  I see that this was pulled up into netbsd-5 approximately
> > Mar-21, but it looks like it has not been pulled to netbsd-5-0, even
> > though other things pulled to netbsd-5 more recently have also been
> > pulled to netbsd-5-0.
> >
> >   Does there need to be a specific request for this bug-fix to if_wm to
> > be pulled into netbsd-5-0?
>
> Yes. This is a major patch  which not only fixes your bug, but also adds
> new features. s such it's not really appropriate for netbsd-5-0.
>
> it would be better to have a patch which just fixes this issue for 5-0

  Right.  That makes perfect sense.

> >   I'm running off of bouyer's patch now, and it's working just fine,
> > I'll rebuild a netbsd-5 kernel in the next few days and verify that that
> > works, but I don't anticipate any issues...

  I failed to respond to this, but as you would expect, an unmodified netbsd-5 
kernel works just fine on the machine that had the problematic wm in it.

> This has been pulled up as ticket 771

  Thanks.

                                         - Chris