Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:14:15 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> On Saturday, 17 of November 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm.. Lots of small fixes, some cleanups, and a few things like the cris 
> > updates that aren't really either, but which won't affect any normal user, 
> > and will hopefully make it easier to sync up in the future.
> > 
> > Network driver fixes, some IDE and infiniband updates, some late cpufreq 
> > updates, and a hwmon update.
> > 
> > On the architecture side, in addition to the afore-mentioned cris updates, 
> > there are some sh, arm, powerpc and mips updates, and also one final x86 
> > unification cleanup (and I really mean it - the rest can wait until after 
> > 2.6.24, but with this one the x86 configuration really is fairly merged, 
> > and both i386 and x86_64 are really just special cases of the "x86" 
> > architecture in the configurator).
> > 
> > And cifs and ocfs2 filesystem updates to round it all up.
> > 
> > Nothing really exciting. A few things got reverted due to regressions, and
> > in general hopefully the regression counts are starting to shrink.
> 
> Yes, they are.
> 
> Speaking of which, would you mind merging the patch at:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/1/246
> 
> To my eyes it's a regression fix, but no one has been pushing it upstream.

There are three patches which affect that kernel function.  One is in
git-x86 and the other two are in -mm.  I sent #2 and #3 to Thomas today
and he's getting it all sorted out.