Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:07:30 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 |
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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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