Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released)

Alessandro Suardi
2007-01-01T13:28:47Z

On 1/1/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> In order to not get in trouble with MADR ("Mothers Against Drunk
> Releases") I decided to cut the 2.6.20-rc3 release early rather than wait
> for midnight, because it's bound to be new years _somewhere_ out there. So
> here's to a happy 2007 for everybody.
>
> The big thing at least for me personally is that nasty shared mmap
> corruption fix, but there's a number of other changes in here, many of
> them just documentation (and some media and network drivers). Shortlog and
> diffstat appended..
>
> The git trees have been updated, and the tar-tree and patches seem to have
> finisged crawling out my poor DSL connection too.
>
> As usual, mirroring might take a while, although the delay has not been
> all that horrible lately, so it's probably going to be up-to-date by the
> time the hangovers are mostly gone.
>
> At which point the first thing on any self-respecting geek's mind should
> obviously be: "is there a new kernel release for me to try?"
>
> Right?

Right ! And this one is still broken in -rc3:

Subject : kernel panics on boot (libata-sff)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/3/99
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/153
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/33
Submitter : Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Caused-By : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f
Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Status : people are working on a fix

Happy 2007 everyone,

--alessandro

"...when I get it, I _get_ it"

(Lara Eidemiller)