Linus, can you tell us, mere mortals, will the IPC changes (new msg.h etc.)
be included in the mainstream kernel? I have to make a decision what to
patch, ac kernels or all the programs affected by those changes....
>
> There's a new pre-patch out there. I'm back from Finland, and have caught
> up with just about half the email that I got during the stay. However,
> even the part I caught up with I may have partly missed something in,
> because (for obvious reasons) I didn't read them as carefully (*) as I
> usually do.
>
> This should fix at least part of the NFS problems people have reported:
> there was code to completely incorrectly invalidate quite valid write
> requests under some circumstances. The pre-patch also contains the first
> batch of patches merged in from Alan, and the "rmdir" problems should be
> fixed (mostly thanks to Al Viro).
>
> This pre-patch also gets rid of some imho completely unnecessary
> complexity in some of the VM memory freeing routines. There have been
> patches floating around that added more heuristics on when to do
> something, and this tries to get the same result by just removing old
> heuristics that didn't make much sense.
>
> Linus
>
> (*) Even my usual "careful" is not very careful by other peoples
> standards. So when _I_ say that I wasn't very careful, you should just
> assume that I was reading my email about as carefully as a hyper-active
> hedgehog on some serious uppers. Can you say "ignored email" three times
> quickly while chewing on an apple?
>
>
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