Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc3

Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-10-24T07:46:26Z

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:22:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ok,
> a few days late, because I'm a retard and didn't think of doing a release
> when I should have.
>
> I'm also a bit grumpy, because I think people are sending me more stuff
> than they should at this stage in the game. We've been pretty good about
> keeping the later -rc releases quiet, please keep it that way.
>
> That said, it's mostly harmless cleanups and some architecture updates.
> And some of the added warnings about unused return values have caused a
> number of people to add error handling. And on the driver front, there's
> mainly new driver ID's, and a couple of new drivers.

The genirq changes broke boot on my x86-64 x366 machine. It needs
these two patches:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116157813623508&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116157837104613&w=2

It also broke tg3 on at least one other machine, so this is not
specific to my machine.

Cheers,
Muli