FreeBSD git weekly: 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-15

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-15.

This report is still in progress.

Table of contents and commits per category:

Highlighted commits Expand section Collapse section

For extra visibility, these are copies of commits found in other sections. Most (if not all) come from the commit message containing "Relnotes:", or commits modifying UPDATING.

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Userland programs Expand section Collapse section

Commits about commands found in man section 1 (other than networking).

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Documentation Expand section Collapse section

Man pages, release notes, etc.

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Hardware support Expand section Collapse section

Hardware drivers and architecture-specific code.

1. ncores and devlog information is read as a combination so it makes
   sense to validate them in the same routine (and nowhere else).
2. ncores is never 0 and idx % ncores is always a valid coreid.

MFC after:      1 week
Sponsored by:   Chelsio Communications

Reviewed by: wulf
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55710

Reviewed by: wulf
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55716

Several Realtek (and lots other) USB dongles present themselves as
CDROM device first.  Upon eject they do a mode switch and suddenly
are a different kind of device (sometimes even with different IDs),
e.g., a wireless dongle.

In order to avoid the CDROM stage and rather than adding the quirk
handling to more drivers, add support to umass and if enabled
automatically eject the "CDROM" to make it the real device.

Longer-term some other drivers could stop using their hand-rolled
support for this.  It is unclear as-to how much we need the list of
(eject) quirks from u3g here, or if these are very specific to that
kind of devices.

Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b3b6a959c85a, https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=9c0cce328363
Reviewed by:    imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54901

Networking Expand section Collapse section

Network-related commands, library, and kernel.

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System administration Expand section Collapse section

Stuff in man section 8 (other than networking).

PR:           https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276099
MFC after:      3 days
Reported by:    michaelo
Co-authored-by: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>

They are all doing almost the same thing so it makes sense to have one
common routine.  The new routine supports non-regular files too.  eg.
 # cxgbetool chnex0 loadfw <(fetch -qo - http://srv/t7fw.bin)

MFC after:      1 week
Sponsored by:   Chelsio Communications
Reviewed by:    jhb
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55747

Libraries Expand section Collapse section

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Filesystems Expand section Collapse section

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Kernel Expand section Collapse section

Kernel stuff (other than networking, filesystems, and drivers).

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Build system Expand section Collapse section

This fixes recursed builds not having meta mode enabled for them which
disabled dependency and and command change tracking.  We only want common
objects marked .NOMETA when recursing, not non-common objects.  The
common code expects _PROGS_COMMON_SRCS does not contain the prog source
or else it will be marked .NOMETA.

Add comments explaining the intent and cases being covered.

Fixes:  https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=4ea5e107b1 ("<bsd.progs.mk>: Allow using SRCS for common sources")
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55711
Reviewed by:    vexeduxr, sjg

Internal organizational stuff Expand section Collapse section

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Testing Expand section Collapse section

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Style, typos, and comments Expand section Collapse section

These could go in other categories, but it's more clear if they're here instead.

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Contrib code Expand section Collapse section

realloc() and rallocx() shares path, and realloc() should set errno to
ENOMEM upon OOM failures.

PR:             https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291677
Obtained from:  jemalloc (commit 38056fea64c34ca4fef0a16212776eaa4de80b78)
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c43cad871720 ("jemalloc: Merge from jemalloc 5.3.0 vendor branch")
MFC after:      3 days
Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2059

PR:           https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291677
Obtained from:  jemalloc (commit 83b075789b4239035931c1ee212576d00153bbf0)
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c43cad871720 ("jemalloc: Merge from jemalloc 5.3.0 vendor branch")
MFC after:      3 days
Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2059

Reverted commits Expand section Collapse section

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Unclassified commits Expand section Collapse section

Not classified automatically, and waiting for manual attention.

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Technical notes

Dates:

• The dates are "approximate" because git has no record of exactly when each commit was added. The "author date" and "commit date" are text fields controlled by each committer, not the actual date the commit reaches cgit.freebsd.org/src. Git accurately records the order of commits, but not their dates.

Automatic grouping:

• "Commit & revert pair" groups were automatically grouped when a commit's (full) message contained

  This reverts commit \\b([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\\b

  and the hash was found in this week's commits.
• "Commit group #" groups were automatically grouped when 3 or more consecutive commits by the same author had the same category and summary prefix.

Automatic categories:

• Commits were (mostly) automatically classified based on regex pattern-matching on the commit's modified files, summary, or the whole commit message. The goal is to have the system automatically classify 95% of the commits, with 95% accuracy; then we'll manually check the results and fix the incorrectly-classified and unclassified commits.

Source code:

• https://github.com/Tarsnap/freebsd-git-weekly