Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-09T18:18:21Z

Hi Greg,

The st/ide-tape/osst llseek changes havent been applied for what reason?

And what about the rest of fixups which Andrew sent you?

I suppose they didnt pass the -stable criteria. Can you share your thoughts
with the rest of us?

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> And to further test this whole -stable system, I've released 2.6.11.2.
> It contains one patch, which is already in the -bk tree, and came from
> the security team (hence the lack of the longer review cycle).
>
> It's available now in the normal kernel.org places:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.11.2.gz
> which is a patch against the 2.6.11.1 release. If consensus arrives
> that this patch should be against the 2.6.11 tree, it will be done that
> way in the future.
>
> A detailed changelog can be found at:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.2
>
> A bitkeeper tree for the 2.6.11.y releases can be found at:
> bk://linux-release.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.11
>
> The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below.
>
> I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch itself,
> as it is small enough to do so.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> -------
>
>
> Makefile | 2 +-
> fs/eventpoll.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> Summary of changes from v2.6.11.1 to v2.6.11.2
> ============================================
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> o Linux 2.6.11.2
>
> Linus Torvalds:
> o epoll: return proper error on overflow condition