From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m144o4qf023528 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:50:08 -0800 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4EB42596874 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:50:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id pfkDJEY8p4t4HI2O for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:50:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47A69990.3030501@sandeen.net> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:50:24 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: unpushed 4-month-old mods? References: <47A694F3.9010307@sandeen.net> <20080204044611.GF155407@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080204044611.GF155407@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: David Chinner Cc: xfs-oss David Chinner wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:30:43PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> At least these three mods which I did back in September to get Fedora 8 >> / 2.6.23 into shape on 4k stacks, and a bugfix, are still not pushed to >> kernel.org, and are missing in 2.6.24... >> >> Is there any reason for the holdup? Makes me wonder what else isn't >> pushed... > > The holdup is that we drew a line in the sand for the 2.6.24 before > 2.6.23 was released. We did this because of the massive amount of invasive > change we already had queued up for 2.6.24. All those mods that got > held up will be pushed into 2.6.25 release. > > Given the problems with the readdir changes (which still isn't 100% right > given we've had at least one bug report of a crash in the readdir code > post 2.6.24 release), we couldn't have handled much more change in that > release..... Ok, as long as you guys know what's up :) I just spent the evening sorting out why Fedora 9 was blowing up on install, when Fedora 8 was working so well... :( -Eric