From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759416AbXGCQVg (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:21:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754556AbXGCQVa (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:21:30 -0400 Received: from web32610.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.237]:27778 "HELO web32610.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755536AbXGCQV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:21:29 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:21:29 EDT X-YMail-OSG: vkuNRTMVM1lzj2QLgpZkOvG8e55HwsPPOIC1y1y_FeI7nKo88RUGH_v9xxM31y.3CDExjeytn215IU7rtEtfhO4nNQ-- X-RocketYMMF: knobi.rm Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:14:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: knobi@knobisoft.de Subject: RE: Linux 2.6.22-rc7 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <389565.1744.qm@web32610.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Ok, Linux-2.6.22-rc7 is out there. > >It's hopefully (almost certainly) the last -rc before the final 2.6.22 >release, and we should be in pretty good shape. The flow of patches has >really slowed down and the regression list has shrunk a lot. > >The shortlog/diffstat reflects that, with the biggest part of the -rc7 >patch being literally just a power defconfig update. > >The patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the >appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it. > >Final testing always appreciated, of course, > >Linus For what it is worth - rc7 compiles and boots here (HP/DL380G4,2x86_64, 8GB, cciss, 2xtg3). The subjective feeling(*) is much better that the original RHEL4 kernel and better than 2.6.19 on the same box. (*) Our main problem with 2.6 kernels so far is a tendency to really bad responsiveness under I/O related load. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de