Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:58:32 +0100 | From | "Alessandro Suardi" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc2 |
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On 12/24/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > Ok, > it's a couple of days delayed, because we've been trying to figure out > what is up with the rtorrent hash failures since 2.6.18.3. I don't think > we've made any progress, but we've cleaned up a number of suspects in the > meantime. > > It's a bit sad, if only because I was really hoping to make 2.6.20 an easy > release, and held back on merging some stuff during the merge window for > that reason. And now we're battling something that was introduced much > earlier.. > > Now, practically speaking this isn't likely to affect a lot of people, but > it's still a worrisome problem, and we've had "top people" looking at it. > And they'll continue, but xmas is coming. > > In the meantime, we'll continue with the stabilization, and this mainly > does some driver updates (usb, sound, dri, pci hotplug) and ACPI updates > (much of the latter syntactic cleanups). And arm and powerpc updates. > > Shortlog appended. > > For developers: if you sent me a patch, and I didn't apply it, it was > probably just missed because I concentrated on other issues. So pls > re-send.. Unless I explicitly told you that I'm not going to pull it due > to the merge window being over, of course ;) > > Linus
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As already reported multiple times, including at -rc1 time...
still need this libata-sff.c patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116343564202844&q=raw
to have my root device detected, ata_piix probe would otherwise fail as described in this thread:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.0/0690.html
Enjoy the holiday season,
--alessandro
"...when I get it, I _get_ it"
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