Re: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sat, 12 May 2018 08:34:16 -0600
    From:        Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20180512143416.GA22962%nyx.net@localhost>

  | 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?

That one I cannot answer - I can't think of any reason it could not be
included, it is a bug fix, and certainly could be pulled up.

But someone has to request it, and then releng need to do it.

That is, if the patch has even been applied to NetBSD-current - I'm not
sure of that either, but if it hasn't, it should be.

dhcpcd has tended to be upgraded to a whole new version when there are
fixes (which can also introduce other changes, which might not be
appropriate to be pulled up) but there is no reason an isolated fix cannot
be incorporated, and then pulled up, in the interim.

The dhcpcd change was the bug fix here, the other changes simply make
the bug occur less often.

kre