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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.28-rc8
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:57:36 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 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 don't have a clue what you're talking about.

<greps the tree>

./fs/affs/inode.c: case ST_SOFTLINK:
./fs/affs/namei.c: error = affs_add_entry(dir, inode, dentry, ST_SOFTLINK);
./include/linux/amigaffs.h:#define ST_SOFTLINK 3

really?



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