Re: 2.6.24-mm1

Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-05T17:05:50Z

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:34 PST, Andrew Morton said:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/
>
> Builds, boots, mostly seems to run for limited testing.
>
> One note - the following commit(s) (and related CPA reworking) broke the NVidia
> binary driver (which is OK, I can fix *that* part). But can somebody explain
> if this should have seen a trip through the -mm tree before it hit mainstream?
> I didn't see these in 24-rc8-mm1:

well that depends on which -mm you tried; I'm sure the mm kernel of the day had it for a while.
I don't think it's a realistic expectation to delay every bugfix and arch patch until Andrew
gets around to releasing an -mm, not do I see the point of that, what would have been different?