Re: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 12:40:01PM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/53247; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
> To: Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
> Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 19:35:32 +0700
> 
>      Date:        Sat, 12 May 2018 06:05:41 -0600
>      From:        Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
>      Message-ID:  <20180512120541.GA1371%nyx.net@localhost>
>  
>    | I've tested the dhcpcd patch alone and the dhcpcd patch plus the
>    | kernel buffer size patch, but I have not tested the kernel buffer size
>    | patch alone.  I've reverted the change to my local version of dhcpcd
>    | and will now test to see that the buffer size increase alone is
>    | sufficient.
>  
>  I doubt that is necessary, or even useful.   It is certainly possible that in
>  your environment you won't lose any routing messages with the bigger
>  buffer, and in that case, the dhcpcd issue won't bother you - but it would
>  still be there, until one day, something unusual happens, you get more
>  routing socket messages than usual, and one is lost.   The real problem
>  is fixed, an occasional message from dhcpcd saying it lost a message
>  will harm nothing (since it now recovers properly).

I was under the impression that that dhcpcd patch I originally tried
is why dhcpcd recovers properly from the error, but that it was not
going to be pulled into netbsd-8.  Have I missed something?

>  Whatever your results are from that test won't provide any useful info,
>  so I just wouldn't waste the time and effort.

I want to test netbsd-8 as it will be.  To check, I did a "cvs up" on
the netbsd-8 tree where I reverted the dhcpcd patch.  Nothing got
updated in the dhcpcd source tree, so I believe that I am testing
netbsd-8 as it is.

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Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
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sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment."
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