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Annotate several known nits in RELENG_5/HEAD that need to be fixed for

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5.3-RELEASE:

- NFS over IPv6 still broke.
- in6_pcbnotify() panic with TCP (patch in hand).
- poll()/select() wedge reports with debug.mpsafenet=1.
- ether_input() having entropy harvesting problems.

Also seen:

- ATA timeout reports.
- Synaptics problems.
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Robert Watson 2004-08-20 04:02:38 +00:00
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from a 5.2.1 system.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NFS over IPv6 problems</td>
<td>&status.new;</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>&a.kuriyama; has reported problems with NFS over IPv6 not functioning
correctly as of the improved NFS support for disconnection changes.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>in6_pcbnotify() panic with TCP</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;</td>
<td>&a.kuriyama; has reportged a failed locking assertion with IPv6
TCP notifications. A patch has been prepared and will be merged to
CVS.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>poll()/select() application wedge reports with debug.mpsafenet=1</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;</td>
<td>There are reports of applications wedging in poll() and select()
while running the network stack without the Giant lock.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ether_input() may harvest entropy from free()'d mbuf</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.markm;</td>
<td>ether_input() calls random_harvest() on the mbuf after it has been
handed off to ether_demux(), at which point it may have been free()'d
back to the mbuf allocator. It also passes in a pointer to the mbuf
itself, rather than ethernet frame header.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Required features for 5.3-RELEASE</h3>
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5.3-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Increase in reports of ATA timeouts</td>
<td>&status.new;</td>
<td>&a.sos;</td>
<td>There has been an increased reporting of ATA timeouts since recent
ATA bug fixes for other problems.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Synaptics touchpad problems</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.philip;</td>
<td>Synaptics updates to the psm(4) driver have resulted in poor
interactivity for taps and button press events for some users.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Desired features for 5.3-RELEASE</h3>