Linux 2.6.24-rc3

Linux 2.6.24-rc3

[Linus Torvalds]

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.

Go get it, and test it.

			Linus

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

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.

Greetings,
Rafael

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

[Andrew Morton]

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.

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > > 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.

FYI, Thomas sent out the git pull request for this (and other) fixes an 
hour ago.

	Ingo

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

[Erik Mouw]

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:33:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Go get it, and test it.

I gav 2.6.24 a first try and "make targz-pkg" fails on i386:

/bin/sh /home/erik/git/linux-2.6/scripts/package/buildtar targz-pkg
Makefile:119: *** Output directory (O=...) specifies kernel src dir.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [targz-pkg] Error 2
make: *** [targz-pkg] Error 2


Erik

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