Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

L. A. Walsh
2005-03-05T18:38:57Z

Many, many thanks...it's a great idea and seems to go well
with Linus's idea of making even releases "hyper-stable".

This is exactly what I was looking for in
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/268836)

Sorry some of you feel like "suckers"...but you're _not_.
You're heroes -- doing the hard sh*t that most programmers
don't want to be bothered with. I salute you!

Linda W.

Greg KH wrote:

>For those of you who haven't waded through the huge "RFD: Kernel release
>numbering" thread on lkml to realize that we are now going to start
>putting out 2.6.x.y releases, here's the summary:
>
> A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of
> releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. It will contain
> only a set of bugfixes and security fixes that meet a strict set
> of guidelines, as defined by Linus at:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/283396
>
>Chris Wright and I are going to start working on doing this work, we
>will have a <SOME_ALIAS>@kernel.org to post these types of bug fixes to,
>and a set of people we bounce the patches off of to test for "smells
>good" validation. We will also have a bk-commits type mailing list for
>those who want to watch the patches flow in, and a bk tree from which
>changsets can be pulled from.
>
>Chris and I will be hashing all of the details out next Tuesday, and
>hopefully all the infrastructure will be in place soon. When that
>happens, we will post the full details on how all of this is going to
>work. In the meantime, feel free to CC: me and Chris on patches that
>everyone thinks should go into the 2.6.11.y releases.
>
>But right now, Chris is on a plane, and we don't have the email alias
>set up, or the proper permissions set up on kernel.org to push changes
>into the v2.6 directory, but we have a few bugs that are needing to be
>fixed in the 2.6.11 release. And since our mantra is, "release early
>and often", here's the first release.
>
>---------------
>
>I've released the 2.6.11.1 patch:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/patch-2.6.11.1.gz
>
>With a detailed changelog at:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/ChangeLog-2.6.11.1
>
>A bitkeeper tree for the 2.6.11.y releases can be found at:
> bk://linux-release.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.11
>
>The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below.
>
>I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch itself,
>as it is small enough to do so.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>
>-------
>
> Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 6 +++---
> drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc | 4 ++++
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>
>Summary of changes from v2.6.11 to v2.6.11.1
>============================================
>
>Dmitry Torokhov:
> o Fix keyboards for Dell machines
>
>Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> o Linux 2.6.11.1
>
>Olof Johansson:
> o Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec
>
>Rene Rebe:
> o trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec
>
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