Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc2

David Brown
2007-02-28T07:24:21Z

On 2/27/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Oh well.. I'm not very proud of this, because quite frankly, -rc2 has way
> more changes than I really like.
>
> And yeah, it's largely my fault, because I simply missed a V4L/DVB merge
> that came in before the merge window closed, but since I didn't notice it
> didn't make -rc1, and as such it got merged late and is in -rc2 instead.
>
> But because I'll flail around wildly and rather blame anything else than
> my own incompetence, I'll just claim that all the other kernel developers
> have been irresponsible, and caused -rc2 to be bigger than needed. In some
> areas (you know who you are) it may even be true..
>
> Apart from the V4L/DVB merge, we've got a late PARISC update, and a number
> of driver updates (ata, networking, usb) changes. Along with the normal
> smattering of random stuff (core networking, selinux, infiniband, agp,
> mips, arm).
>
> Anyway, I really hope the thing starts calming down now, and everybody
> should take a hard look at the regressions lists that Adrian has started
> sending out. We already fixed some of them, but there is more to go..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Linus

I got this compile error:

CC arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.o
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c: In function 'setup_IO_APIC_irqs':
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c:1357: error: 'struct irq_desc' has no
member named 'affinity'
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c: In function 'io_apic_set_pci_routing':
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c:2878: error: 'struct irq_desc' has no
member named 'affinity'
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2

didn't happen with rc1

- David Brown