Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1

Alistair John Strachan
2006-10-05T15:09:13Z

On Thursday 05 October 2006 04:29, 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:

Booted fine here, but I've got a few strange messages from the firewire
subsystem that weren't present in 2.6.18. I think it marginally slows down
boot up, but I could just be imagining it.

[alistair] 16:04 [~] dmesg | grep 1394
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[dffff000-dffff7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ohci1394: fw-host1: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[17] MMIO=[dfffc000-dfffc7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Running dma failed because Node ID is not valid
ohci1394: fw-host0: AT dma reset ctx=0, aborting transmission
ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting...
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023c0091023fd7]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[1-00:1023] GUID[000129200003d023]

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Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
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