Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc9

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To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 7:15 pm

Ok, the last -rc obviously wasn't the last one after all, since here's a
new one. Enough changes that we needed another -rc, and the regression
list isn't emptying fast enough either (probably because a number of
people, including reporters, are vacationing).

But this should in fact close a number of entries, so it's not all doom
and gloom.

The actual bulk of this all is a new UVC video driver for the standard USB
Video Class specification. It's a new driver, so shouldn't cause any
regressions, but it's fairly sizable, which explains the dirstat:

1.3% drivers/media/video/cx18/
1.4% drivers/media/video/saa7134/
78.0% drivers/media/video/uvc/
83.4% drivers/media/video/
84.4% drivers/media/
1.4% drivers/net/wireless/
2.3% drivers/net/
91.9% drivers/
2.6% fs/
1.7% net/

ie 78% is just that one new driver, and almost 92% is driver updates in
general (although some of them are reverts, so they show up as diffs
against -rc8, but they actually cause the _total_ diff against 2.6.25 to
shrink a bit).

The fs updates are partly some minor updates to 9p, ecryptfs, proc and
udf, but partly some delayed cleanup patches that went through Al. Bad Al.
But when Al sends me patches, I apply them. I worry what would happen if I
didn't.

The rest is mainly small fixes (one-liners and "few-liners") all over the
place, many of them merged from Andrew's -mm queue.

Linus

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Adrian Bunk (2):
pkt_sched: Remove CONFIG_NET_SCH_RR
include/linux/netdevice.h: don't export MAX_HEADER to userspace

Akinobu Mita (1):
add kernel-doc for simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_buffer

Al Viro (2):
fix cgroup-inflicted breakage in block_dev.c
[netdrvr] netxen: fix netxen_pci_tbl[] breakage

Alan Cox (1):
tty: Fix inverted logic in send_break

Alan Stern (1):
USB: don't lose disconnections during suspend

Alex Chiang (1):
PCI: acpiphp: cleanup notify handler on all root bridges

Andi Kleen (1...

To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 7:36 pm

Noticed the stale LATEST-IS-* entries no longer being removed at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/?C=N;O=A
...
ChangeLog-2.6.26-rc8 25-Jun-2008 02:14 56K
LATEST-IS-2.6.26-rc3 18-May-2008 21:46 0
LATEST-IS-2.6.26-rc4 26-May-2008 18:17 0
LATEST-IS-2.6.26-rc5 05-Jun-2008 03:17 0
LATEST-IS-2.6.26-rc6 12-Jun-2008 21:45 0
LATEST-IS-2.6.26-rc7 20-Jun-2008 23:44 0
LATEST-IS-2.6.26-rc8 25-Jun-2008 02:14 0
linux-2.6.26-rc1.tar.bz2 03-May-2008 19:40 47M
...

Grant.
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To: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 8:19 pm

Heh. They were never removed automatically, it requires somebody to
remember to remove the old ones. Which I obviously haven't been doing
lately.

Should be fixed now.

Linus
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 6:03 am

Hi Linus, Grant,

What about just getting rid of these files? I fail to see what purpose
they are serving (especially given how badly maintained they are.)

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Jean Delvare
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