From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Lnux 2.6.24-rc5
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:54:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071212065437.73e708ef@weaponx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197453301.4710.71.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:25:01 +0530
Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 21:40 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's been a week, and I promised to be a good boy and try to follow my
> > release rules, so here is the next -rc.
> >
> > Things _have_ slowed down, although I'd obviously be lying if I said we've
> > got all the regressions handled and under control. They are being worked
> > on, and the list is shrinking, but at a guess, we're definitely not going
> > to have a final 2.6.24 out before xmas unless santa puts some more elves
> > to work on those regressions..
> >
> > So any elves out there - please keep working.
> >
> > I'm including the shortlog since it's small enough, and quite frankly,
> > gives about as readable explanation of the changes as can be imagined.
> > Nothing hugely exciting here.
> >
> > I'd post the diffstat too, but it's not really all that interesting, and
> > it only highlights a textually big PA-RISC revert, and the powerpc
> > defconfig updates. And the Blackfin SPI driver. The rest is largely random
> > noise in various subsystems (drivers/net, xfs filesystem, and arch updates
> > are some of the areas that show more changes).
> >
> > Linus
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt (6):
> > ibm_newemac: Fix ZMII refcounting bug
> > ibm_newemac: Workaround reset timeout when no link
> > ibm_newemac: Cleanup/Fix RGMII MDIO support detection
> > ibm_newemac: Cleanup/fix support for STACR register variants
> > ibm_newemac: Update file headers copyright notices
> > powerpc: Fix IDE legacy vs. native fixups
> >
>
> Dear Benjamin,
>
> Since you are working on Device drivers, do you want to see whether your
> Device drivers testcases can fit in here in LTP:
> http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/device-drivers/,
There are no testcases for the EMAC drivers per se. Also, I don't see
any testcases for any network driver in there at all. Is that not
something LTP is testing yet?
josh
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2007-12-12 9:55 ` Lnux 2.6.24-rc5 Subrata Modak
2007-12-12 12:54 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-12-12 12:59 ` Subrata Modak
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