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SubjectRe: Linux 3.0.8
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On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 04:41 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:40 +0200, Greg KH said:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:40:44PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On 10/24/11 22:19, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade.
> > > I noticed that "must" word in 3.0.7 also. Please explain.
> > Nothing new, I've been saying that for years.
>
> I think Randy means that out of the 29 commits for .7->.8, there's only one
> (Hugh Dicken's mremap fix) and *maybe* Peter Zijlstra's cputimer fix, which
> even *possibly* rise to the "all users" level, as everything else is against
> XFS or CIFS or ARM or something else that's not an across-the-board issue.
>
> And the changelog for the mremap commit says that "but this lucky report
> hints", which sort of implies it's a very hard-to-hit bug that nobody even knew
> was there.
>
> So it's not obvious from just the shortlog that it's a "MUST upgrade" category.

Seems like perfectly fine boilerplate to me. If I want the warmest
fuzzy I can get, I must upgrade. Peter's patch fixed a box killer that
I don't care to hit (dead bugs being kinda boring), so I must upgrade.

-Mike



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