Following the piratical release of 2.6.14-rc2, a brief discussion looked at the advantages of using git to grab the latest version of the kernel code. A small break in service as the master.kernel.org server was situated in its new home [story] caused the 2.6.14-rc2 patch to not show up right away, and led to people pointing out the advantages of using git. When the ketchup script [story] was proposed as an alternative, it was illustrated how git can keep you up to date with the kernel down to a patch by patch level, or with a specific checkpoint. Linus further explained how git can be used to first track down that a bug was introduced between for example rc1-git3 and rc1-git4, and then to use "git-bisect" to further isolate the problem to a specific change.

As for -rc2, Linus noted, "not a whole lot o' excitement, ye scurvy dogs, but it has t' ALSA, LSM, audit and watchdog merges that be missed from -rc1, and a merge series with Andrew. But on t' whole pretty reasonable - you can see t' details in the shortlog (appended)." Evidently Monday the 19'th of September was International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:22:36 -0700 (PDT)


Ahoy landlubbers!

Here be t' Linux-2.6.14-rc2 release.

Not a whole lot o' excitement, ye scurvy dogs, but it has t' ALSA, LSM,
audit and watchdog merges that be missed from -rc1, and a merge series
with Andrew. But on t' whole pretty reasonable - you can see t' details in
the shortlog (appended).

Arrr!

		Linus

---
Abhay Salunke:
  dell_rbu: enhancements and fixes

Adam Kropelin:
  ibmphp: Use dword accessors for PCI_ROM_ADDRESS
  pciehp: Use dword accessors for PCI_ROM_ADDRESS
  shpchp: Use dword accessors for PCI_ROM_ADDRESS
  qla2xxx: Use dword accessors for PCI_ROM_ADDRESS

Adrian Bunk:
  SECURITY must depend on SYSFS

Al Viro:
  epca iomem annotations + several missing readw()

Alan Cox:
  ide: clean up the garbage in eighty_ninty_three

Alexander Nyberg:
  Fix fs/exec.c:788 (de_thread()) BUG_ON

Alexey Dobriyan:
  [8021Q]: Add endian annotations.

Alok Kataria:
  Fix slab BUG_ON() triggered by change in array cache size

Amy Griffis:
  AUDIT: Prevent duplicate syscall rules

Andi Kleen:
  Fix MPOL_F_VERIFY
  Make BUILD_BUG_ON fail at compile time.
  x86_64: Export end_pfn

Andrew Morton:
  [WATCHDOG] driver-for-ibm-automatic-server-restart-watchdog-fix
  i2c-keywest warning fix
  set_current_state() commentary
  schedule_timeout_[un]interruptible() speedup
  s2io warning fixes
  x86_64: e820.c needs module.h
  x86_64: desc.h-needs smp.h
  seclvl-use-securityfs tidy
  dell_rbu tidy
  joystick-vs-x.org fix

Andrey Panin:
  [WATCHDOG] driver-for-ibm-automatic-server-restart-watchdog.patch

Anton Altaparmakov:
  NTFS: Fix various bugs in the runlist merging code.  (Based on libntfs
  NTFS: Fix handling of compressed directories that I broke in earlier changeset.
  NTFS: Fix ntfs_{read,write}page() to cope with concurrent truncates better.

Anton Blanchard:
  hvc_console: start kernel thread before registering tty
  ppc64: build fix

Antonino A. Daplas:
  fbdev Kconfig fix
  nv_i2c oops fix
  savagefb: Fix load failure of the Twister chipset
  vgacon: Fix sanity checking in vgacon_resize
  vc: Use correct size on buffer copy in vc_resize

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
  [DCCP]: Check if already in the CLOSING state in dccp_rcv_closereq
  [DCCP]: Handle SYNC packets in dccp_rcv_state_process
  [DCCP]: More precisely set reset_code when sending RESET packets
  [DCCP]: Introduce DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVICE
  [DCCP]: Add MAINTAINERS and CREDITS entries
  [DCCP]: Move the ack vector code to net/dccp/ackvec.[ch]
  [CCID3]: Introduce include/linux/tfrc.h
  [DCCP]: Don't use necessarily the same CCID for tx and rx
  [DCCP]: Introduce CCID getsockopt for the CCIDs

Arnaud Patard:
  sata_sis: Fix typo in sata port2 initialisation

Arnaud Patard (Rtp):
  [WATCHDOG] s3c2410_wdt.c-state_warning.patch

Badari Pulavarty:
  AUDIT: Fix definition of audit_log_start() if audit not enabled

Bart De Schuymer:
  [BRIDGE-NF]: Fix iptables redirect on bridge interface

Cal Peake:
  Even more fallout from ATI Xpress timer workaround

Chris Mason:
  reiserfs: use mark_inode_dirty instead of reiserfs_update_sd

Chuck Ebbert:
  i386: Ignore masked FPU exceptions

Clemens Ladisch:
  [ALSA] ad1889: add AD1889 driver
  [ALSA] ad1889: add AD1889 driver docs
  [ALSA] hdsp: always initialize card name
  [ALSA] usb-audio: add SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH flag
  [ALSA] sparse address space annotations
  [ALSA] opti93x: optimize a register access
  [ALSA] rtctimer: add option to make RTC timer the default sequencer timer
  [ALSA] set owner field in struct pci_driver

Con Kolivas:
  vm: kswapd cleanup: use pgdat

Dave Hansen:
  fix mm/Kconfig spelling

David Hardeman:
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.patch
  [WATCHDOG] i6300.h-removal-patch

David L Stevens:
  [IPV6]: Fix per-socket multicast filtering in sk_reuse case

David S. Miller:
  [NETLINK]: Reserve a slot for NETLINK_GENERIC.
  [COMPAT]: Fixup compat_do_execve()
  [LIB]: Consolidate _atomic_dec_and_lock()
  [NET]: Do not leak MSG_CMSG_COMPAT into userspace.
  [TG3]: Add AMD K8 to list of write-reorder chipsets.

David Woodhouse:
  AUDIT: Allow filtering of user messages
  AUDIT: Drop user-generated messages immediately while auditing disabled.
  AUDIT: Really exempt auditd from having its actions audited.
  AUDIT: Report lookup flags with path/inode records.
  AUDIT: Spawn kernel thread to list filter rules.
  AUDIT: Optimise the audit-disabled case for discarding user messages
  Add audit subsystem to MAINTAINERS, for my sins.
  AUDIT: Wait for backlog to clear when generating messages.
  AUDIT: Remove stray declaration of tsk from audit_receive_msg().
  AUDIT: No really, we don't want to audit auditd.
  AUDIT: Return correct result from audit_filter_rules()
  AUDIT: Clean up user message filtering
  AUDIT: Use KERN_NOTICE for printk of audit records
  AUDIT: Fix definition of audit_log() if audit not enabled
  AUDIT: Stop waiting for backlog after audit_panic() happens
  AUDIT: Really don't audit auditd.
  Fix positioning of audit in MAINTAINERS.
  AUDIT: Exempt the whole auditd thread-group from auditing
  AUDIT: Avoid scheduling in idle thread
  AUDIT: Fix compile error in audit_filter_syscall
  AUDIT: Fix livelock in audit_serial().
  AUDIT: Reduce contention in audit_serial()
  AUDIT: Fix task refcount leak in audit_filter_syscall()
  AUDIT: Speed up audit_filter_syscall() for the non-auditable case.
  Fix missing audit_syscall_exit() on ppc64 sigsuspend exit path
  [AUDIT] Allow filtering on system call success _or_ failure
  Fix build failure on ppc64 without CONFIG_AUDIT

Davide Libenzi:
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Bring the Vaio's RA826G HDA (82801) to life ...
  epoll: fix delayed initialization bug

Deepak Saxena:
  [ARM] 2917/1: Make IXP4xx mach_desc's depend on config options

Denis Lukianov:
  [MCAST]: Fix MCAST_EXCLUDE line dupes

Dipankar Sarma:
  Fix the fdtable freeing in the case of vmalloced fdset/arrays
  files: fix preemption issues

Domen Puncer:
  Remove arch/arm26/boot/compressed/hw-bse.c

Dominik Brodowski:
  pcmcia: warn on IOCTL usage

Florin Malita:
  [BOND]: Fix bond_init() error path handling.

Frank Pavlic:
  s390: ctc driver fixes
  s390: TSO related fixes in qeth driver
  s390: qeth driver fixes

George G. Davis:
  [ARM] 2896/1: Add sys_ipc_wrapper to pass 'fifth' argument on stack

Greg KH:
  add securityfs for all LSMs to use

H. Peter Anvin:
  RAID6 Altivec fix

Harald Welte:
  [NETFILTER]: Fix oops in conntrack event cache
  [NETFILTER] Fix Kconfig dependencies for nfnetlink/ctnetlink
  [NETFILTER] move nfnetlink options to right location in kconfig menu
  [NETFILTER]: Solve Kconfig dependency problem
  [NETFILTER]: Add new PPTP conntrack and NAT helper
  [NETFILTER]: Export ip_nat_port_{nfattr_to_range,range_to_nfattr}

Heiko Carstens:
  s390: bl_dev array size
  s390: show_cpuinfo fix

Herbert Xu:
  [TCP]: Compute in_sacked properly when we split up a TSO frame.
  [TCP]: Handle SACK'd packets properly in tcp_fragment().

Hidetoshi Seto:
  [IA64] mca_drv cleanup

Hugh Dickins:
  error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory()

Ian E. Morgan:
  [WATCHDOG] New SBC8360 watchdog driver (revised)

Ingo Molnar:
  Fix spinlock owner debugging

Ivan Kokshaysky:
  yenta oops fix
  Alpha: ISA IRQs fixup for dp264

James Chapman:
  [WATCHDOG] mv64x60_wdt.patch

James Courtier-Dutton:
  [ALSA] snd-ca0106: Tidy up volume controls
  [ALSA] snd-ca0106, snd-emu10k1: Add symlink in the sys tree.
  [ALSA] snd-emu10k1: ALSA bug#1297: Fix a error recognising the SB Live Platinum.

Jan Beulich:
  free initrd mem adjustment
  minor fbcon_scroll adjustment
  fbcon: constify font data
  matroxfb adjustments
  x86_64: NMI watchdog frequency calculation adjustments

Jaroslav Kysela:
  [ALSA] version 1.0.10rc1

Jay Vosburgh:
  bonding: plug reference count leak

Jean Delvare:
  i2c: kill an unused i2c_adapter struct member

Jeff Dike:
  uml: _switch_to code consolidation
  uml: breakpoint an arbitrary thread
  uml: Remove an unused file
  uml: Remove a useless include
  uml: Remove some build warnings
  uml: preserve errno in error paths
  uml: move libc code out of mem_user.c and tempfile.c
  uml: merge mem_user.c and mem.c
  uml: return a real error code
  uml: remove include of asm/elf.h
  uml: UML/i386 cmpxchg fix

Jeff Garzik:
  [libata] fix PIO completion race

Jens Axboe:
  fix pf request handling

Jens Osterkamp:
  net: fix spider_net media detection

Jimi Xenidis:
  ppc64: Fix recent regression

Jiri Slaby:
  [WATCHDOG] removes pci_find_device from i6300esb.c
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c-2-bugs-little-cleanup.patch
  [ALSA] pci_find_device remove
  drivers/base/*: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc+memset

John W. Linville:
  e1000: correct rx_dropped counting
  e100: correct rx_dropped and add rx_missed_errors
  ixgb: correct rx_dropped counting
  pci: only call pci_restore_bars at boot

Jose Miguel Goncalves:
  [WATCHDOG] w83977f-watchdog-driver.patch

Julian Anastasov:
  [IPVS]: Really invalidate persistent templates
  [IPVS]: ip_vs_ftp breaks connections using persistence

Karsten Keil:
  i4l: Sedlbauer speed star II V 3.1 exist with various subversions
  Add PCI IDs for Sitecom DC-105
  cleanup whitespace in pci_ids.h
  Fix ST 5481 USB driver

Keith Owens:
  Correct xircom_cb use of CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
  [IA64] Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txt

Komuro:
  pcmcia: add another orinoco_cs id

KOVACS Krisztian:
  [NETFILTER] CLUSTERIP: introduce reference counting for entries
  [NETFILTER] CLUSTERIP: use a bitmap to store node responsibility data

Krzysztof Halasa:
  [WAN] hdlc_cisco: Fix regression introduced by skb->tail changes.

Kumar Gala:
  ppc32: remove use of asm/segment.h

Lennert Buytenhek:
  [ARM] 2911/1: ixp2000_reg_{read,write} accessors
  [ARM] 2909/1: remove IXP2000_PROD_ID
  [ARM] 2904/1: update ixp2000 defconfigs to 2.6.13
  [ARM] 2905/1: enable the ixp2000 i2c bus driver in ixp2000 defconfigs

Linus Torvalds:
  Fix up more strange byte writes to the PCI_ROM_ADDRESS config word
  Fix yenta error message when unable to find a bus assignment
  Partially revert "Fix time going twice as fast problem on ATI Xpress chipsets"
  x86-64/smp: fix random SIGSEGV issues
  Make fsnotify possibly work better for the inode removal case
  Linux v2.6.14-rc2

Marcel Holtmann:
  [Bluetooth] Add support for extended inquiry responses
  [Bluetooth] Prevent RFCOMM connections through the RAW socket
  [Bluetooth] Add ignore parameters to the HCI USB driver

Marcelo Tosatti:
  relayfs documentation typo

Mark J Cox:
  raw_sendmsg DoS on 2.6

Martin Habets:
  [ALSA] Several fixes for the Sun DBRI driver

Martin Schwidefsky:
  s390: default configuration
  s390: crypto driver patch take 2

matthieu castet:
  airo : fix channel number in scan

Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
  v4l: experimental Sliced VBI API support
  v4l: fixup on cx88_dvb for Dvico HDTV5 Gold

Michael Chan:
  [TG3]: Fix 4GB boundary tx handling

Michael Kerrisk:
  PR_GET_DUMPABLE returns incorrect info

Michal Piotrowski:
  dontdiff: add asm_offsets

Mike Miller:
  cciss: new controller pci/subsystem ids
  cciss: busy_initializing flag
  cciss: new disk register/deregister routines
  cciss: direct lookup for command completions
  cciss: bug fix in cciss_remove_one
  cciss: fix for DMA brokeness
  cciss: One Button Disaster Recovery support
  cciss: SCSI tape info for /proc

Mitsuru KANDA:
  [IPV6]: Check connect(2) status for IPv6 UDP socket (Re: xfrm_lookup)

Naveen Gupta:
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c-WDT_ENABLE-bug
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb-set_correct_reload_register_bit
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c-pci_dev_put+nowayout-patch

Neil Brown:
  nfsd4: printk reduction
  nfsd4: move replay_owner
  nfsd4: fix open seqid incrementing in lock
  nfsd4: fix setclientid unlock of unlocked state lock
  Code cleanups in calbacks in svcsock

Nicolas Pitre:
  [ARM] 2910/1: missing Lubbock audio device declaration

OGAWA Hirofumi:
  FAT: miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on write)

Pantelis Antoniou:
  ppc32 8xx: flush_tlb_range() declaration uses wrong pointer type

Patrick McHardy:
  [NETFILTER]: Use correct type for "ports" module parameter
  [NETFILTER]: Simplify netbios helper
  [NETFILTER]: Fix rcu race in ipt_REDIRECT
  [NETFILTER]: Fix DHCP + MASQUERADE problem
  [NETFILTER]: Rename misnamed function

Paul Mackerras:
  ppc64: Make eeh_init function again

Pavel Machek:
  Tell people not to use pm_register()

Pekka J Enberg:
  CodingStyle: memory allocation

Peter Chubb:
  [IA64] Remove warnings for gcc 4.0 IA64 compilation.

Peter Hagervall:
  [TG3]: Sparse fixes for tg3

Peter Oberparleiter:
  s390: kernel stack corruption

Peter Osterlund:
  Remove unnecessary check_region references in comments
  pktcdvd: fix bogus BUG_ON
  pktcdvd: documentation update
  pktcdvd: more accurate I/O accounting
  pktcdvd: use kcalloc and kzalloc
  pktcdvd: BUG_ON cleanups

Peter Staubach:
  open returns ENFILE but creates file anyway

Randy Dunlap:
  use add_taint() for setting tainted bit flags
  Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)
  feature removal of io_remap_page_range()

Richard Purdie:
  SharpSL: Abstract c7x0 specifics from Corgi SSP
  SharpSL: Add cxx00 support to the Corgi LCD driver
  SharpSL: Abstract c7x0 specifics from Corgi Touchscreen driver
  SharpSL: Abstract model specifics from Corgi Backlight driver
  SharpSL: Add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi with partial Akita Support
  SharpSL: Add an input keyboard driver for Zaurus cxx00 series
  [ARM] 2915/1: SA1100 Collie: Correct scoop device calls
  [ARM] 2912/1: PXA Corgi: Cleanup some unneeded code
  [ARM] 2913/1: PXA Poodle: Cleanup some unneeded code
  [ARM] 2914/1: PXA Poodle: Add MMC and UDC support
  SharpSL: Add missing hunk from backlight update
  MTD: Update SharpSL partition definitions
  Fix up some pm_message_t types

Robert Love:
  hdaps driver update

Robert Olsson:
  [IPV4]: fib_trie tnode stats refinements
  [IPV4]: fib_trie RCU refinements

Roland Dreier:
  add PCI IDs so RME32 and RME96 drivers build

Russell King:
  [ARM SMP] Add timer/watchdog defines for MPCore
  [I2C] Add a functionality method, and remove algorithm ids
  [ARM SMP] Add timer/watchdog defines for MPCore
  [ARM] Remove PFN_TO_NID for !DISCONTIGMEM
  [ARM] Tighten pfn_valid() test.
  [ARM] Fix warning in asm/futex.h
  [ARM] Fix warning in arch/arm/kernel/semaphore.c
  [ARM] Fix warning in arch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c

Serge Hallyn:
  seclvl: use securityfs (fix)

serue@us.ibm.com:
  seclvl securityfs

Srivatsa Vaddagiri:
  CPU hotplug breaks wake_up_new_task

Stephen Hemminger:
  sk98lin: remove PCI id info for cards for conflicting devices
  skge: gmac register access errors in dual port
  8139cp: allocate statistics space only when needed

Takashi Iwai:
  [ALSA] Fix EAPD for MSI S270
  [ALSA] atiixp - Fix PM resume
  [ALSA] intel8x0 - Add quirk for IBM NetVisa A30p
  [ALSA] Fix ALC658D support
  [ALSA] Add snd_card_set_dev()
  [ALSA] hda-intel - Check validity of DMA position
  [ALSA] Update/fix ALSA document
  [ALSA] Introduce snd_card_set_generic_dev()
  [ALSA] Add snd_card_set_generic_dev() call
  [ALSA] Add snd_card_set_generic_dev() call to ISA drivers
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Assign audio PCMS first
  [ALSA] Fix DocBook warnings
  [ALSA] Remove superfluous PCI ID definitions
  [ALSA] hda-intel - Fix modem PCM creation
  [ALSA] powermac - Add AUTO_DRC config
  [ALSA] pcm-oss - Add bugg-yptr option
  [ALSA] intel8x0 - Add buggy_semaphore option
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Added ASUS A6
  [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - core stuff
  [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - seq stuff
  [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - isa stuff
  [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - pci stuff
  [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - others
  [ALSA] Another fix for DocBook
  [ALSA] Add missing sound PCI IDs to pci_ids.h

Thomas Maguin:
  scsi_ioctl: Add WRITE_LONG_2 as write safe command

Timothy Thelin:
  ide: fix null request pointer for taskfile ioctl

Tobias Klauser:
  arch/i386: Replace custom macro with isdigit()
  drivers/video: Replace custom macro with isdigit()

Tom Rini:
  ppc32: discard *.exit.text and *.exit.data sections

Tony Luck:
  [IA64] fix circular dependency on generation of asm-offsets.h

Uwe Koziolek:
  sata_sis: uninitialized variable

Victor Fusco:
  [AUDIT] Fix sparse warning about gfp_mask type

Vincent Pelletier:
  [ALSA] Correct detection of iBook G4 1420Mhz soundcard

Vincent Sanders:
  [ARM] 2907/1: GCC 4 serial driver compile fixes

Vitaly Bordug:
  ppc32: Add ppc_sys descriptions for PowerQUICC I devices

Vivek Goyal:
  More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txt

Volker Sameske:
  s390: diag 0x308 reipl

Wim Van Sebroeck:
  [WATCHDOG] Kconfig+Makefile-clean2
  [WATCHDOG] driver-for-ibm-automatic-server-restart-watchdog-fix2.patch
  [WATCHDOG] sbc8360+w83977f_wdt-consolidate_CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT_handling
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd_pci-include+WDIOC_SETOPTIONS-patch

Yasuyuki Kozakai:
  [NETFILTER] ip6tables: remove duplicate code

Zach Brown:
  Add smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to unlock_kiocb()



From: Gene Heskett [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:50:15 -0400

On Monday 19 September 2005 23:22, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Ahoy landlubbers!
>
>Here be t' Linux-2.6.14-rc2 release.
>
>Not a whole lot o' excitement, ye scurvy dogs, but it has t' ALSA, LSM,
>audit and watchdog merges that be missed from -rc1, and a merge series
>with Andrew. But on t' whole pretty reasonable - you can see t' details
> in the shortlog (appended).
>
>Arrr!

:-)
You've been watching entirely too much tv Linus.  That commercial
is one of the better examples of the "vast wasteland" that is todays
tv.

Also, where can this wondrous new patch be found as its not made its
way to kernel.org as of 00:45 EDT?

[...]

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.



From: Patrick McFarland [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:31:42 -0400

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:50 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> You've been watching entirely too much tv Linus.  That commercial
> is one of the better examples of the "vast wasteland" that is todays
> tv.

D'arr, the 19th of Septembarrr tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day. 
( http://talklikeapirate.com/ ).

-- 
Patrick the Bloody, Captain of the Red Sea Deamon, Yarr!
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd 
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989



From: Gene Heskett [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:05:49 -0400

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 09:31, Patrick McFarland wrote:
>On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:50 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> You've been watching entirely too much tv Linus.  That commercial
>> is one of the better examples of the "vast wasteland" that is todays
>> tv.
>
>D'arr, the 19th of Septembarrr tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
>( http://talklikeapirate.com/ ).

Yeah :-), but where is this new patch-2.6.14-rc2.gz to be
found. Its still not made it to kernel.org as of 10:05 EDT.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.



From: Russell King [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:10:08 +0100

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:05:49AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 09:31, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> >On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:50 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> You've been watching entirely too much tv Linus.  That commercial
> >> is one of the better examples of the "vast wasteland" that is todays
> >> tv.
> >
> >D'arr, the 19th of Septembarrr tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
> >( http://talklikeapirate.com/ ).
> 
> Yeah :-), but where is this new patch-2.6.14-rc2.gz to be
> found. Its still not made it to kernel.org as of 10:05 EDT.

The mutinous bots have deserted master.kernel.org and aren't doing
what they're supposed to be doing.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core



From: Gene Heskett [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:25:36 -0400

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:10, Russell King wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:05:49AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 09:31, Patrick McFarland wrote:
>> >On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:50 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> You've been watching entirely too much tv Linus.  That commercial
>> >> is one of the better examples of the "vast wasteland" that is
>> >> todays tv.
>> >
>> >D'arr, the 19th of Septembarrr tis International Talk Like A Pirate
>> > Day. ( http://talklikeapirate.com/ ).
>>
>> Yeah :-), but where is this new patch-2.6.14-rc2.gz to be
>> found. Its still not made it to kernel.org as of 10:05 EDT.
>
>The mutinous bots have deserted master.kernel.org and aren't doing
>what they're supposed to be doing.

Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-)

FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now.

-- 
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From: "Sean" [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:20:46 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, September 20, 2005 10:25 am, Gene Heskett said:

> Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-)
>
> FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now.

Gene,

While kernel.org snapshots will no doubt be working again shortly, you
might want to consider using git.  It reduces the amount you have to
download for each release a lot.

It's really easy to grab a copy of git and use it to grab the kernel:

mkdir kernel
cd kernel
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
cd git-core-0.99.7
make install
cd ..

git clone \
rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
linux

cd linux
git checkout


The above is given as an attachment as well because of annoying word wrap
issues with the long url's.   Anyway, after that you can stay current with
the latest Linus release with a simple  "git pull".

Cheers,
Sean



From: Alexander Nyberg [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:32:31 +0200

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:20:46AM -0400 Sean wrote:

> On Tue, September 20, 2005 10:25 am, Gene Heskett said:
> 
> > Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-)
> >
> > FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now.
> 
> Gene,
> 
> While kernel.org snapshots will no doubt be working again shortly, you
> might want to consider using git.  It reduces the amount you have to
> download for each release a lot.
> 
> It's really easy to grab a copy of git and use it to grab the kernel:
> 
> mkdir kernel
> cd kernel
> wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
> tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
> cd git-core-0.99.7
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> git clone \
> rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
> linux
> 
> cd linux
> git checkout
> 

ketchup <version>



From: "Sean" [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:40:00 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, September 20, 2005 11:32 am, Alexander Nyberg said:

> ketchup <version>

"git pull" is actually simpler in that you don't need to specify a
version.  And it will keep you current with HEAD even between official
releases.

Sean



From: Jan Dittmer [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:18:24 +0200

Sean wrote:
> On Tue, September 20, 2005 11:32 am, Alexander Nyberg said:
> 
> 
>>ketchup <version>
> 
> 
> "git pull" is actually simpler in that you don't need to specify a
> version.  And it will keep you current with HEAD even between official
> releases.

$ ketchup 2.6-git

and you've the plus of very well defined checkpoints.

Jan



From: "Sean" [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:26:54 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, September 20, 2005 12:18 pm, Jan Dittmer said:
> Sean wrote:
>> On Tue, September 20, 2005 11:32 am, Alexander Nyberg said:
>>
>>>ketchup <version>
>>
>> "git pull" is actually simpler in that you don't need to specify a
>> version.  And it will keep you current with HEAD even between official
>> releases.
>
> $ ketchup 2.6-git
>
> and you've the plus of very well defined checkpoints.

Huh?  Have you ever used git?  Not only do you get very well defined
checkpoints you can instantiate a tree down to any specific commit.  And
you get the plus of a complete detailed changelog etc.. "git log".  
Really, ketchup doesn't come close to git.

Sean



From: Jan Dittmer [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:44:53 +0200

Sean wrote:
> On Tue, September 20, 2005 12:18 pm, Jan Dittmer said:
> 
>>Sean wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, September 20, 2005 11:32 am, Alexander Nyberg said:
>>>
>>>
>>>>ketchup <version>
>>>
>>>"git pull" is actually simpler in that you don't need to specify a
>>>version.  And it will keep you current with HEAD even between official
>>>releases.
>>
>>$ ketchup 2.6-git
>>
>>and you've the plus of very well defined checkpoints.
> 
> 
> Huh?  Have you ever used git?  Not only do you get very well defined
> checkpoints you can instantiate a tree down to any specific commit.  And
> you get the plus of a complete detailed changelog etc.. "git log".  
> Really, ketchup doesn't come close to git.

I know, but for multiple people testing daily releases it's much easier to
say -git1 worked -git2 didn't. Sure, for searching the patch `git bisect`
is priceless but for regular testing the -gitx thing comes very handy.
Otherwise you can get a arbitrary intermediate state of linus tree if
you're pulling at the wrong moment. It's actually also faster I suppose
to get one patch than running `git pull` - at least with a cold cache
(it used to be in the 0.1 days of git).
Just my .02,

Jan



From: "Sean" [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:50:46 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, September 20, 2005 12:44 pm, Jan Dittmer said:

> I know, but for multiple people testing daily releases it's much easier to
> say -git1 worked -git2 didn't. Sure, for searching the patch `git bisect`
> is priceless but for regular testing the -gitx thing comes very handy.
> Otherwise you can get a arbitrary intermediate state of linus tree if
> you're pulling at the wrong moment. It's actually also faster I suppose
> to get one patch than running `git pull` - at least with a cold cache
> (it used to be in the 0.1 days of git).
> Just my .02,

That's a good point.  Guess it would be useful if the HEAD commit was
documented along with each -gitX release.

Sean



From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:02:53 -0700 (PDT)



On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Sean wrote:
> 
> That's a good point.  Guess it would be useful if the HEAD commit was
> documented along with each -gitX release.

It is. Just get the "id" file that is associated with a snapshot, and it 
gives the git commit ID for that state.

So for example, the 2.6.14-rc1-git3 snapshot is associated with the ID 
file patch-2.6.14-rc1-git3.id, which contains 

	v2.6/snapshots(0)$ cat patch-2.6.14-rc1-git3.id
	065d9cac98a5406ecd5a1368f8fd38f55739dee9

so once you know that something broke between rc1-git3 and rc1-git4, you 
can now do

	git bisect start
	git bisect good 065d9cac98a5406ecd5a1368f8fd38f55739dee9
	git bisect bad bc5e8fdfc622b03acf5ac974a1b8b26da6511c99

and off you go..

		Linus



From: "Sean" [email blocked]
Subject: using -gitX snapshot tags [was Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2]
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:42:46 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, September 20, 2005 1:02 pm, Linus Torvalds said:

> It is. Just get the "id" file that is associated with a snapshot, and
> it gives the git commit ID for that state.
>
> So for example, the 2.6.14-rc1-git3 snapshot is associated with the ID
> file patch-2.6.14-rc1-git3.id, which contains
>
> 	v2.6/snapshots(0)$ cat patch-2.6.14-rc1-git3.id
> 	065d9cac98a5406ecd5a1368f8fd38f55739dee9
>
> so once you know that something broke between rc1-git3 and rc1-git4,
> you can now do
>
> 	git bisect start
> 	git bisect good 065d9cac98a5406ecd5a1368f8fd38f55739dee9
> 	git bisect bad bc5e8fdfc622b03acf5ac974a1b8b26da6511c99
>
> and off you go..


The attached patch grabs all the .id files from the snapshot directory on
kernel.org and converts them into tags in a local git repository.  So
after running "gtags", your example becomes:

       git bisect start
       git bisect good v2.6.14-rc1-git3
       git bisect bad v2.6.14-rc1-git4

Sean

#----[gtags]-----
#!/bin/sh
cd .git/refs/tags/ || exit
lftp http://www.kernel.org <<\EOF
  cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/
  mget patch*.id
  cd /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/refs/tags/
  mget *
EOF
rename patch- v patch-*.id
rename .id "" v*.id

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