Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

Nick Piggin
2008-12-11T08:46:19Z

On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:57:36 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 December 2008 12:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Nothing overly exciting here. Lots of small things, mostly in drivers
> > > (with some defconfig updates for m68k and mips making the diffs
> > > bigger).
> > >
> > > There's some uncomfortably big changes to the intel DRI code, but most
> > > of that is all about fixes to the new i916 "GEM" code that is only used
> > > by development X servers, and is a new feature, so it shouldn't be able
> > > to cause regressions.
> > >
> > > Perhaps more interesting is simply the release scheduling issue. I'm
> > > getting slowly ready to do a real 2.6.28, but I don't think anybody
> > > really wants the merge window to be around the holidays. So the
> > > question is really whether to
> > >
> > > (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after
> > > xmas
> > >
> > > I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and
> > > we'd get a more stable 2.6.28.
> >
> > I still have one fix for a reported regression (softlink code doesn't
> > honour GFP_NOFS, caused by a patch of mine). Posted a couple of weeks
> > ago, but it didn't get anywhere.
>
> I don't have a clue what you're talking about.
>
> <greps the tree>
>
> ./fs/affs/inode.c: case ST_SOFTLINK:
> ./fs/affs/namei.c: error = affs_add_entry(dir, inode, dentry,
> ST_SOFTLINK); ./include/linux/amigaffs.h:#define ST_SOFTLINK 3
>
> really?

Oh, I thought I cc'ed you...