How long for bug fixes to be merged into the kernel?

loveydovey

loveydovey

I am curious how long it takes for bug fixes to be merged into the kernel? I added two patches for my device IDs on bugzilla a couple of months ago or so, and I wonder when will they get incorporated. There's nothing simpler than that, so why can't it just be dealt with quickly?

What is phabricator? I read somewhere it's faster for bugs. I am so confused why there are two places for bugs or features.

What's the best way to do these things?
 
Possibly noone noticed these PRs have device to confirm.

Anyway, (basically) 2 weeks maintainer timeout is over for both.
Any committer interested in it can test and commit them.

You can look for committers at freebsd-ports ML. At least more luck to post here forums.

And one way to address what Ed Maste noted on Comment 1 of the latter would be to open review on Phabricator with sufficient info (at minimum, your email address and name) registered in your profile.

You can read how-tos here. You don't need installing command line client if you don't want. See section 3.3 for details. I'm on this way.
Having devel/git to manage your src tree would be the minimal requirement.
git diff -U999999 at /usr/src would be your friend to generate required patch. (If you don't want committing your change in your cloned local repo and any additions of files / directories exist, need different way.)
 
loveydovey There's the LDWG desktop work group meeting. Here's a copy of the most recent email announcement:

Dear community,
This is a friendly reminder about our upcoming Laptop and DesktopWorkgroup (LDWG) call, which is scheduled for this week
Wednesday, January 14, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC
Whether you participated in our previous meetings or are joining us forthe first time, we warmly welcome your presence and input!
In case you haven't heard about the workgroup yet, please check out ourwiki page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/LaptopDesktopWorkingGroup
Join the Call: We will be meeting online via Jitsi.
Here's the meeting link:https://meet.jit.si/moderated/b6204a6748f7bc560905eb8514d4f607fe76f4367bfa17e3984763ff509ef184
Hope to see you there!
Let's keep improving our laptop and desktop experiences within theFreeBSD community!
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.
chris
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Next meeting should fall on the second Wednesday, March 11. Please check the wiki for details.
 
Nobody cares anymore about adding new hardware to FreeBSD? That is horrible for the future of FreeBSD.

So sad. How did we get to such a system? Patches ignored from users? Add extra requirements to patching.

HPS would have picked these up. I guess nobody cares anymore. We will go the way of the dodo bird.

Just mark as:
WONT FIX
Get it over with.

Instead: 'Closed by Events' 10 years later.
 
Phishfry said:
Nobody cares anymore about adding new hardware to FreeBSD? That is horrible for the future of FreeBSD.
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No.
If no one is interested in adding new devices or updating for existing devices, /usr/src/sys/dev/ shouldn't be updated, but it's continuously updated.

And for USB devices, if no one is interested in adding new devices, /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs shouldn't be updated, but it's continuously updated.

I think the problem would be that any devs interested in this are doesn't have relevant hardware to test and confirm locally, thus, cannot be sure enough to commit.

Phishfry said:
HPS would have picked these up.
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Sadly, hselasky@ (aka HPS) had passed away. As far as I know, he had the deepest knowledge and experience in FreeBSD USB stack and worked hardest in this area. So anyone interested need to study about related codes first to catch up with him. And more, if I understand correctly, such developers are now focusing on supporting USB4 (and above). This should affect largest amount of users who want to use latest computers.

Phishfry said:
I guess nobody cares anymore. We will go the way of the dodo bird.
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DON'T SAY SUCH A THING ANYMORE!!!!!
It would hurt motivations of developers.

And unfortunately, FreeBSD is NOT YET a first-class platform that hardware manufacturers provide their drivers. At least one of the reason would be because FreeBSD userbase are still not as large as Linux and I believe this is why FreeBSD Foundation is working hard for advocacy.
 
TL; DR - if "you" (as in anyone using FreeBSD, myself included) wanted a more easy life, you should have selected a different operating system. On the other hand, if you want it interesting, stick with FreeBSD.
 
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