"It's a few days late, but I was waiting for some updates for some of the most annoying regressions until releasing it, so the end result is hopefully more useful as a result," Linus Torvalds began, announcing the 2.6.25-rc4 kernel. He offered a dirstat summary, noting, "the dirstat shows that (as usual) most of the changes are in drivers and arch (~51% and ~17% respectively), with about half the driver updates being in network drivers." Linus continued:
"In particular, the block layer changes should hopefully have sorted themselves out, and CD burning etc hopefully works for people again. Same goes for the the scheduler regressions, and a number of annoying boot-time problems. [...] It's really a fair amount of small changes spread all over, with most of the changes being quite small (604 commits, most of them small, with the BNX2X network driver and the new fsldma driver the only ones that got some bigger changes)."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Linux 2.6.25-rc4
Date: Mar 5, 1:03 am 2008
It's a few days late, but I was waiting for some updates for some of the
most annoying regressions until releasing it, so the end result is
hopefully more useful as a result.
In particular, the block layer changes should hopefully have sorted
themselves out, and CD burning etc hopefully works for people again. Same
goes for the the scheduler regressions, and a number of annoying boot-time
problems.
In short, if you had any issues, please do test, and make sure that the
regression list gets updated (whether fixed or not).
The dirstat shows that (as usual) most of the changes are in drivers and
arch (~51% and ~17% respectively), with about half the driver updates
being in network drivers. Full details for those who care:
2.0% Documentation/
3.6% arch/blackfin/
3.6% arch/cris/
2.3% arch/sparc/kernel/
2.8% arch/x86/
17.3% arch/
2.1% drivers/char/
7.0% drivers/dma/
3.0% drivers/firewire/
24.0% drivers/net/
50.6% drivers/
5.6% fs/cifs/
9.4% fs/
3.6% include/
5.2% kernel/
3.9% mm/
2.5% net/
but in general, it's really a fair amount of small changes spread all
over, with most of the changes being quite small (604 commits, most of
them small, with the BNX2X network driver being and the new fsldma driver
the only one that got some bigger changes).
So give it all a good testing,
Linus
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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Linux 2.6.25-rc4
Date: Mar 5, 1:00 am 2008
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29e8c3...
Commit: 29e8c3c304b62f31b799565c9ee85d42bd163f80
Parent: 9b37ccfc637be27d9a652fcedc35e6e782c3aa78
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 4 20:33:54 2008 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 4 20:33:54 2008 -0800
Linux 2.6.25-rc4
---
Makefile | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a229784..ae78a31 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 25
-EXTRAVERSION = -rc3
+EXTRAVERSION = -rc4
NAME = Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
# *DOCUMENTATION*
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