Re: Lnux 2.6.24-rc5

Re: Lnux 2.6.24-rc5

[Subrata Modak]

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/,

I am eager to know whether we can work together to get these device
drivers testcases inside LTP.

Regards--
Subrata
(LTP Mainatiner)

Re: Lnux 2.6.24-rc5

[Josh Boyer]

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

Re: Lnux 2.6.24-rc5

[Subrata Modak]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 06:54 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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?

Nope. LTP is not doing that. Like lkml it is also dependent on community
for contributions. Our Device Driver Test cases needs to be
re-rejuvenated as they are pretty old. I am of the idea of maintaining
Architecture specific device drivers testcases inside LTP as well
provided you guys give me the required test cases.

--Subrata

> 
> josh