Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test8-mm1 | Date | 21 Oct 2003 15:43:44 GMT |
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In article <20031020020558.16d2a776.akpm@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: | | ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test8/2.6.0-test8-mm1 | | | . Included a much updated fbdev patch. Anyone who is using framebuffers, | please test this. | | . Quite a large number of stability fixes. | | | | Changes since 2.6.0-test7-mm1:
| +devfs-initrd-fix.patch | | Fix initrd when devfs is in use
I casually followed the thread on this, is this a band-aid or a magic spell of healing? Do you consider this a "real fix" for the various problems people reported?
| +export-system_running.patch | +might_sleep-early-bogons.patch | | Stomp all the early might_sleep() warnings.
Sort of the same question, were the warnings really bogus, or were people just not doing the things which might cause a real error?
| +slab-leak-detector.patch | +slab-leak-detector-tweaks.patch | | A slab debugging tool for finding memory leaks: do | | echo "slab-name 0 0 0" > /proc/slabinfo | | and the kernel will inspect each live object in that cache and will print | out the code address from which the allocation was performed.
Neat!
| +parport_pc-resource-release-fix.patch | | Fix an oopsable resource leak in parport_pc.
I'll try my old parport ZIP drive (ppa) again this weekend.
| +ext3-latency-fix.patch | | Improved scheduling latency in ext3.
Did someone have measurements on this?
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