Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:45:53 +1100 |
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On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:07, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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?
Oh, I thought I cc'ed you...
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=122777850302085&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=122777852502093&w=2
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