From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc5
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:55:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100921015525.GH31363@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinPnUmRsYZ7pxBP4Jv9FNpiei2YxZG=0JrBi=Ft@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:24:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I should have done this yesterday, but got distracted. So here's -rc5,
> one day late - so it got some extra updates from Greg thanks to my
> procrastination.
>
> Nothing really stands out. Except perhaps that Al has obviously been
> looking at architecture sigreturn paths, and been finding problems,
s/sigreturn/signal/ and there's more pending patches in that pile; I'd
estimate that as 30-40, unless new classes of bugs show up in that crap.
In that case all bets are off... And yes, I'm serious - it's that badly
bitrotten. I'm holding back the obvious cleanups (e.g. there's a bunch
of common helpers asking to be introduced); for now it's plain bugfixes
and the estimate above is just for those. Cleanups will have to wait for
the merge window...
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2010-09-21 0:24 Linux 2.6.36-rc5 Linus Torvalds
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