Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1

caszonyi
2006-10-06T17:49:18Z

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> Ok, it's two weeks since v2.6.18, and as a result I've cut a -rc1 release.
>
> As usual for -rc1 with a lot of pending merges, it's a huge thing with
> tons of changes, and in fact since 2.6.18 took longer than normal due to
> me traveling (and others probably also being on vacations), it's possibly
> even larger than usual.
>
> I think we got updates to pretty much all of the active architectures,
> we've got VM changes (dirty shared page tracking, for example), we've got
> networking, drivers, you name it. Even the shortlog and the diffstats are
> too big to make the kernel mailing list, but even just the summary says
> something:
>
> 4998 total commits
> 6535 files changed, 414890 insertions(+), 233881 deletions(-)
>
> so please give it a good testing, and let's see if there are any
> regressions.
>

In dmesg:
warning: process `sleep' used the removed sysctl system call
warning: process `alsactl' used the removed sysctl system call
warning: process `nscd' used the removed sysctl system call
warning: process `tail' used the removed sysctl system call

ver_linux says:
/~ $ ./src/kernel/linux-2.6.19-rc1/scripts/ver_linux
If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version.
Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes.

Linux grinch 2.6.19-rc1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Oct 5 22:53:57 EEST 2006 i686
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Gnu C 3.3.4
Gnu make 3.80
binutils 2.15.92.0.2
util-linux 2.12p
mount 2.12p
module-init-tools 3.1
e2fsprogs 1.35
jfsutils 1.1.11
reiserfsprogs 3.6.18
xfsprogs 2.6.13
quota-tools 3.12.
nfs-utils 1.0.7
Linux C Library 2.3.4
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.4
Linux C++ Library 5.0.6
Procps 3.2.5
Net-tools 1.60
Kbd 1.12
Sh-utils 5.2.1

/~ $ /usr/sbin/alsactl -v
alsactl version 1.0.10

In Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt it says:

---------------------------

What: sys_sysctl
When: January 2007
Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is
the
interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional
maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.

Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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I can upgrade my userspace (Slackware 10.1) if necessary ;)

Bye
Calin

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