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* Linux v2.6.24-rc1
@ 2007-10-24  4:19 Linus Torvalds
  2007-10-24  4:49 ` Willy Tarreau
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  0 siblings, 13 replies; 55+ messages in thread
From: Linus Torvalds @ 2007-10-24  4:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel Mailing List


This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It's humongous. 
Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional 
smaller ones, and the occasional ones that top 6M, but this one is 
*eleven* megs.

I'd blame the x86 renames (and the watchdog ones), but the thing is, it's 
absolutely huge even when I generate the diff with git turning all those 
renames into relatively small rename diffs (which I don't do for the 
public diffs, since I expect that git people use git to get the changes, 
and non-git people won't have tools that understand a diff that involves 
renames).

In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, 
but also tons of new drivers (wireless networking stands out, but is by no 
means the only thing - we've got dvb, regular wired network, mmc etc all 
joining in), and a fair amount or architecture stuff, filesystems, 
networking etc too.

So there's just lots of new stuff. The diffstat is ten thousand lines 
long, and weighing in at comfortably over half a megabyte it is way over 
the limits of this - or any sane - mailing list. The shortlog is barely 
shorter, weighing in at "just" 8461 lines and almost 400k. The full 
changelog (which I'm still producing for y'all, since people told me they 
actually care last time I asked) is 4 megs.

In other words, I don't even know where to start. The big noticeable thing 
is the x86 merge, and I think we all fervently hope that it won't cause 
any issues. So far it's been pretty smooth sailing. Knock wood.

Less smooth has the scatter-gather changes to the block layer been, but 
they are hopefully all in reasonable shape by now too. And the VM changes? 
I honestly hope nobody even notices. Same goes for some of the VFS layer 
changes that affected basically every filesystem (although in mostly very 
straightforward ways).

Just for fun, I'd really encourage git users to just try the

	git shortlog v2.6.23..

thing, it really is quite impressive. 

			Linus

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2007-10-24  4:19 Linux v2.6.24-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2007-10-24  4:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-10-24  5:22 ` Dave Young
2007-10-24  7:23   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24  7:32     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2007-10-24  7:33     ` Dave Young
2007-10-24  8:12     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-24  7:44 ` kvm_main.c:220: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_mask' Paolo Ornati
2007-10-24  7:56   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24  8:04 ` Linux v2.6.24-rc1 Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24  8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-24 10:17   ` Linux v2.6.24-rc1, x86 arch code quality, unifications Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 11:07   ` Linux v2.6.24-rc1 Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24 12:12     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 12:21       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24 21:30       ` [RFC - GIT pull] first step to get rid of x86_64 and i386 dirs Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24 22:50         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-25  6:14           ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-25 10:56             ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 15:45               ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-25 10:18         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-25 10:55           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24  8:10 ` [Git Patch] arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c: fix a building error WANG Cong
2007-10-24 11:03   ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-24 11:30 ` [git pull] x86 arch updates Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 11:48   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 12:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 13:25 ` 2.6.24-rc1 fails with lockup and BUG: Romano Giannetti
2007-10-24 14:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 15:53     ` Romano Giannetti
2007-10-24 15:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 16:11         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26  5:57           ` Romano Giannetti
2007-10-26  6:37             ` 2.6.24-rc1 fails with lockup - /sbin/ifconfig / inet_ioctl() / dev_close() / rtl8169_down() Ingo Molnar
2007-10-26 16:48               ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-26 17:56                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-26 18:33                   ` [PATCH] r8169: don't call napi_disable if not doing NAPI Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-26 20:17                     ` Francois Romieu
2007-10-28 22:18                     ` Romano Giannetti
2007-10-29  8:56                     ` Romano Giannetti
2007-10-24 16:44   ` 2.6.24-rc1 fails with lockup and BUG: Joseph Fannin
2007-10-26  5:59     ` Romano Giannetti
2007-10-24 18:19 ` Linux v2.6.24-rc1 Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-12-04 10:08   ` [Bug 9246] On 2.6.24-rc1-gc9927c2b BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 3d15b925 Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04 16:47     ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2007-12-04 20:08       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-05  9:26         ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2007-10-24 19:44 ` [patch] portman2x4.c: fix boot hang Ingo Molnar
2007-10-24 20:12   ` Frans Pop
2007-10-24 21:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-25  8:16   ` Takashi Iwai
2007-10-25  5:18 ` 2.6.24-rc1 doesn't build Theodore Tso
2007-10-25  5:30   ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-10-25 12:45 ` Linux v2.6.24-rc1 edz_mania
2007-10-26  5:19 ` [PATCH] Dump filtering supports x86_64 sparsemem(Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1) Ken'ichi Ohmichi

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