Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:57:36 +1100 |
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On Thursday 11 December 2008 12:04, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Nothing overly exciting here. Lots of small things, mostly in drivers > (with some defconfig updates for m68k and mips making the diffs bigger). > > There's some uncomfortably big changes to the intel DRI code, but most of > that is all about fixes to the new i916 "GEM" code that is only used by > development X servers, and is a new feature, so it shouldn't be able to > cause regressions. > > Perhaps more interesting is simply the release scheduling issue. I'm > getting slowly ready to do a real 2.6.28, but I don't think anybody really > wants the merge window to be around the holidays. So the question is > really whether to > > (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after xmas > > I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and we'd > get a more stable 2.6.28.
I still have one fix for a reported regression (softlink code doesn't honour GFP_NOFS, caused by a patch of mine). Posted a couple of weeks ago, but it didn't get anywhere.
I thought it would be good to have in 2.6.28, but it's been present in a couple of releases now, so maybe Andrew didn't think it worth the trouble?
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