[patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[Blaisorblade]

Here are some more fixes intended for 2.6.12 (and well tested). Can you merge 
them soon, Andrew? Thanks.

The first is a particularly bad one since it shows up when you *start* 
compiling UML (due to a quilt patch -> normal patch conversion problem, a 
file wasn't actually deleted, but it was when applied through quilt). Was 
this too quick a merge, maybe? What's your "merging policy" (if any) for 
patches?

Also, I had marked some of the patches I sent as needing some staging time in 
-mm (especially "uml: redo console locking"), while I had marked other ones 
as needing immediate merge. Jeff instead has sent some "cleanup / groundwork 
for future work" (which anyway were mostly trivial) together with some urgent 
fixes.

Actually they aren't a problem (especially because UML has almost no support 
for SMP) however this policy risks breaking things.

We had the exactly opposite problem for 2.6.10 release - some important fixes 
which were sent by Jeff just before 2.6.10 release to be merged in it (but 
which weren't explicitly marked as such) were merged in 2.6.10-mm1.
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Re: [patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[Blaisorblade]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > Here are some more fixes intended for 2.6.12 (and well tested). Can you
> > merge them soon, Andrew? Thanks.
>
> Sure.

> > The first is a particularly bad one since it shows up when you *start*
> > compiling UML (due to a quilt patch -> normal patch conversion problem, a
> > file wasn't actually deleted, but it was when applied through quilt). Was
> > this too quick a merge, maybe? What's your "merging policy" (if any) for
> > patches?

> Jeff sent in fixes which were dependent on other things I had, we're maybe
> several weeks away from 2.6.12,
Several weeks away? Ok, that's nice to know, so we are not in a hurry 
(especially since I'm totally busy). When I'll have time I'll flush out the 
rest of what I have in my tree.
> so I figured there was plenty of time to 
> get things fixed up - best to get it all flushed out and fix any fallout
> rather than hang around, given that UML seems to be still changing in
> fairly significant ways.
Ok, I had guessed we were near to the release instead.
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Re: [patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[Andrew Morton]

Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> Here are some more fixes intended for 2.6.12 (and well tested). Can you merge 
> them soon, Andrew? Thanks.

Sure.

> The first is a particularly bad one since it shows up when you *start* 
> compiling UML (due to a quilt patch -> normal patch conversion problem, a 
> file wasn't actually deleted, but it was when applied through quilt). Was 
> this too quick a merge, maybe? What's your "merging policy" (if any) for 
> patches?

Jeff sent in fixes which were dependent on other things I had, we're maybe
several weeks away from 2.6.12, so I figured there was plenty of time to
get things fixed up - best to get it all flushed out and fix any fallout
rather than hang around, given that UML seems to be still changing in
fairly significant ways.

Re: [patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[Andrew Morton]

Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> > Jeff sent in fixes which were dependent on other things I had, we're maybe
> > several weeks away from 2.6.12,
> Several weeks away?

Hope so.  We lost a lot of testing due to lack of daily snapshots and
general SCM churn.  Plus I have a boatload of bug reports to follow up on
here.

Re: [patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[Blaisorblade]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 02:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > > Jeff sent in fixes which were dependent on other things I had, we're
> > > maybe several weeks away from 2.6.12,
> >
> > Several weeks away?
>
> Hope so.  We lost a lot of testing due to lack of daily snapshots
Is there a technical reason they've not been restored? I've kept forgetting to 
request them.
> and 
> general SCM churn.

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Re: [patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12

[Andrew Morton]

Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 02:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > > > Jeff sent in fixes which were dependent on other things I had, we're
> > > > maybe several weeks away from 2.6.12,
> > >
> > > Several weeks away?
> >
> > Hope so.  We lost a lot of testing due to lack of daily snapshots
>
> Is there a technical reason they've not been restored?

Nope.  They started again five days ago.

Restoring the link to snapshots on kernel.org (was: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 0/6] latest bugfixes for 2.6.12)

[Blaisorblade]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:42, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 02:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > > > > Jeff sent in fixes which were dependent on other things I had,
> > > > > we're maybe several weeks away from 2.6.12,
> > > >
> > > > Several weeks away?
> > >
> > > Hope so.  We lost a lot of testing due to lack of daily snapshots
> >
> > Is there a technical reason they've not been restored?

> Nope.  They started again five days ago.
Would anybody restore the link from the main www.kernel.org/ page, then? I 
only see there (and in the finger banner) the 2.4 snapshots, not the 2.6 
ones.

I just found
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/, but only by knowing 
there were the snapshots somewhere.
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Re: Restoring the link to snapshots on kernel.org

[H. Peter Anvin]

Blaisorblade wrote:
> 
>>Nope.  They started again five days ago.
> 
> Would anybody restore the link from the main www.kernel.org/ page, then? I 
> only see there (and in the finger banner) the 2.4 snapshots, not the 2.6 
> ones.
> 
> I just found
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/, but only by knowing 
> there were the snapshots somewhere.

It's because there is no snapshots against -rc4, simply because Linus is 
on vacation and thus there hasn't been any changes since -rc4.

	-hpa

Re: Restoring the link to snapshots on kernel.org

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Blaisorblade wrote:
> > 
> >>Nope.  They started again five days ago.
> > 
> > Would anybody restore the link from the main www.kernel.org/ page, then? I 
> > only see there (and in the finger banner) the 2.4 snapshots, not the 2.6 
> > ones.
> > 
> > I just found
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/, but only by knowing 
> > there were the snapshots somewhere.
> 
> It's because there is no snapshots against -rc4, simply because Linus is 
> on vacation and thus there hasn't been any changes since -rc4.
> 

How about cleaning up the v2.6/testing directory?

 [   ]  ChangeLog-2.6.9-rc4                10-Oct-2004 22:15   115k
 [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.11-rc5               24-Feb-2005 10:58     0k
 [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc1               17-Mar-2005 20:41     0k
 [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc2               04-Apr-2005 11:41     0k
 [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc3               20-Apr-2005 19:21     0k
 [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc4               07-May-2005 00:41     0k
 [DIR]  cset/                              04-Apr-2005 12:16      -

Lee

Re: Restoring the link to snapshots on kernel.org

[H. Peter Anvin]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Blaisorblade wrote:
>>
>>>>Nope.  They started again five days ago.
>>>
>>>Would anybody restore the link from the main www.kernel.org/ page, then? I 
>>>only see there (and in the finger banner) the 2.4 snapshots, not the 2.6 
>>>ones.
>>>
>>>I just found
>>>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/, but only by knowing 
>>>there were the snapshots somewhere.
>>
>>It's because there is no snapshots against -rc4, simply because Linus is 
>>on vacation and thus there hasn't been any changes since -rc4.
>>
> 
> 
> How about cleaning up the v2.6/testing directory?
> 
>  [   ]  ChangeLog-2.6.9-rc4                10-Oct-2004 22:15   115k
>  [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.11-rc5               24-Feb-2005 10:58     0k
>  [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc1               17-Mar-2005 20:41     0k
>  [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc2               04-Apr-2005 11:41     0k
>  [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc3               20-Apr-2005 19:21     0k
>  [   ]  LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc4               07-May-2005 00:41     0k
>  [DIR]  cset/                              04-Apr-2005 12:16      -
> 
> Lee

Ask Linus.

	-hpa