On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:10:29 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.27.9 kernel.

This is still missing the fix for the regression from .7 to .8 that I
reported here:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00006.html

The fix is here:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00998.html

Been running that on top of -stable and it does fix the problem. It also
seems to work for other people. Is there some particular reason why this
was not included? I tested and cc'ed stable@ for a reason. :(

-h