From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932943AbXDZGaS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:30:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932985AbXDZGaS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:30:18 -0400 Received: from outmx013.isp.belgacom.be ([195.238.5.64]:58686 "EHLO outmx013.isp.belgacom.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932943AbXDZGaQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:30:16 -0400 From: Jan De Luyck To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:30:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704260830.01336.ml_linuxkernel_20060528@kcore.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 April 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal > for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some > of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky > enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one > of the ethernet drivers that got updated etc). > > So it's been over two and a half months, and while it's certainly not the > longest release cycle ever, it still dragged out a bit longer than I'd > have hoped for and it should have. As usual, I'd like to thank Adrian (and > the people who jumped on the entries Adrian had) for keeping everybody on > their toes with the regression list - there's a few entries there still, > but it got to the point where we didn't even know if they were real > regressions, and delaying things further just wasn't going to help. I've just compiled 2.6.21, seems to run fine, in tickless mode, on a Dell D610. Is there any way to check how many timer ticks are firing, except for monitoring /proc/interrupts? Thanks for all the hard work! Jan -- She has an alarm clock and a phone that don't ring -- they applaud.