Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Nov 17 2007 - 04:57:09 EST


On Saturday, 17 of November 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Hmmm.. Lots of small fixes, some cleanups, and a few things like the cris
> updates that aren't really either, but which won't affect any normal user,
> and will hopefully make it easier to sync up in the future.
>
> Network driver fixes, some IDE and infiniband updates, some late cpufreq
> updates, and a hwmon update.
>
> On the architecture side, in addition to the afore-mentioned cris updates,
> there are some sh, arm, powerpc and mips updates, and also one final x86
> unification cleanup (and I really mean it - the rest can wait until after
> 2.6.24, but with this one the x86 configuration really is fairly merged,
> and both i386 and x86_64 are really just special cases of the "x86"
> architecture in the configurator).
>
> And cifs and ocfs2 filesystem updates to round it all up.
>
> Nothing really exciting. A few things got reverted due to regressions, and
> in general hopefully the regression counts are starting to shrink.

Yes, they are.

Speaking of which, would you mind merging the patch at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/1/246

To my eyes it's a regression fix, but no one has been pushing it upstream.

Greetings,
Rafael
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