Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

John Stoffel wrote:
> Linus> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate
> Linus> doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had
> Linus> in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really
> Linus> couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some
> Linus> really stupid brown-paper-bag thing.
> 
> Linus> So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to
> Linus> make this series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few
> Linus> days. So please do give it a last good testing, and holler
> Linus> about any issues you find!
> 
> Just to let people know, I was running 2.6.23-rc for over 53 days
> without any issues.  Mix of SCSI, Sata, tape drives, disks, MD, LVM,
> SMP, etc.  I suspect we've got a pretty darn stable release coming out
> soon.
> 
I've been running rc8-git3 since it came out, and while I've built git-5 
and will build rc9, I probably will continue testing until I find a bug 
or have to boot for some other reason. Running really well, even with a 
lot of kvm stuff going on, kernel builds for other machines, etc.

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