Linux-2.4.15-pre9
From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)David Mosberger noticed that SCHED_FIFO has been broken for a while, and
obviously very few people really cared, but it should be fixed now.
The USB update that I had originally documented as being part of pre8 was
actually in my in-file, and is _really_ there in pre9, along with a bonus
usbnet update.
I think I'm ready to hand this over to Marcelo.
Linus
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pre9:
- David Brownell: usbnet update
- Greg KH: USB and PCI hotplug update
- Ingo/me: fix SCHED_FIFO for UP/SMP for good (flw).
- Add back direct_IO now that it works again.
pre8:
- Richard Henderson: alpha update
- Andrew Morton: fix ext3/minix/sysv fsync behaviour.
pre7:
- Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
- Christoph Hellwig: UFS filesystem byteorder cleanups
- me: modified Andrea VM page allocator tuning
pre6:
- Russell King: /proc/cpuinfo for ARM
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update (cpuinfo etc)
- Nicolas Aspert: fix Intel 8xx agptlb flush
- Marko Myllynen: "Lindent" doesn't really need bash ;)
- Alexander Viro: /proc/cpuinfo for s390/s390x/sh, /proc/pci cleanup
- Alexander Viro: make lseek work on seqfiles
pre5:
- Greg KH: enable hotplug driver support
- Andrea Arcangeli: remove bogus sanity check
- David Mosberger: /proc/cpuinfo and scsi scatter-gather for ia64
- David Hinds: 16-bit pcmcia network driver updates/cleanups
- Hugh Dickins: remove some stale code from VM
- David Miller: /proc/cpuinfo for sparc, sparc fork bug fix, network
fixes, warning fixes
- Peter Braam: intermezzo update
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Ivan Kokshaysky: /proc/cpuinfo for alpha
- David Woodhouse: jffs2 - remove dead code, remove gcc3 warning
- Hugh Dickins: fix kiobuf page allocation/deallocation
pre4:
- Mikael Pettersson: make proc_misc happy without modules
- Arjan van de Ven: clean up acpitable implementation ("micro-acpi")
- Anton Altaparmakov: LDM partition code update
- Alan Cox: final (yeah, sure) small missing pieces
- Andrey Savochkin/Andrew Morton: eepro100 config space save/restore over
suspend
- Arjan van de Ven: remove power from pcmcia socket on card remove
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Neil Brown: multipath updates
- Martin Dalecki: fix up some "asmlinkage" routine markings
pre3:
- Alan Cox: more driver merging
- Al Viro: make ext2 group allocation more readable
pre2:
- Ivan Kokshaysky: fix alpha dec_and_lock with modules, for alpha config entry
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- Jeff Garzik: network driver updates, sysv fs update
- Kai Mäkisara: SCSI tape update
- Alan Cox: large drivers merge
- Nikita Danilov: reiserfs procfs information
- Andrew Morton: ext3 merge
- Christoph Hellwig: vxfs livelock fix
- Trond Myklebust: NFS updates
- Jens Axboe: cpqarray + cciss dequeue fix
- Tim Waugh: parport_serial base_baud setting
- Matthew Dharm: usb-storage Freecom driver fixes
- Dave McCracken: wait4() thread group race fix
pre1:
- me: fix page flags race condition Andrea found
- David Miller: sparc and network updates
- various: fix loop driver that thought it was part of the VM system
- me: teach DRM about VM_RESERVED
- Alan Cox: more merging
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Re: Linux-2.4.15-pre9
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha@gnu.org)On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:44:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I think I'm ready to hand this over to Marcelo.
Aren't you going to include Tim Schmielau's patch to handle uptime larger than
497 days? It is a cool feature we always liked to have.
Cheers,
Anuradha
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Re: Linux-2.4.15-pre9
From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:44:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I think I'm ready to hand this over to Marcelo.
>
> Aren't you going to include Tim Schmielau's patch to handle uptime larger than
> 497 days? It is a cool feature we always liked to have.
Quite frankly, right now I'm in "handle only bugs that can crash the
system mode". Anything that takes 497 days to see is fairly low on my
priority list. My highest priority, in fact, is to get 2.4.15 out without
any embarrassment.
Because it's not as if time stops when Marcelo takes over. I've suggested
to him that he wait for a while just to see what the real problem spots
are, but he'll have a full-time job integrating patches.
Note that I'll probably do the same thing: when I release 2.4.15, I'll at
the same time release a 2.5.0 that is identical except for version number
(that makes synchronization easier later on). And I'll probably _not_
start accepting all the big waiting patches immediately, I'd rather wait
for at least a week or two to see that there aren't any other issues.
It's much easier doing some of the IO patches in particular knowing that
the base you start out from is stable.
Linus
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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:00:12 +0100 From: Marcelo Tosatti <marc...@conectiva.com.br> X-Sender: marc...@freak.distro.conectiva Subject: Linux 2.4.16-pre1 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111241636200.12066-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: robo...@news.nic.it X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Approved: robo...@news.nic.it (1.20) NNTP-Posting-Host: a.623.anti-phl.bofh.it Newsgroups: linux.kernel Organization: linux.*_mail_to_news_unidirectional_gateway Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!bofh.it!robomod X-Original-Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@transmeta.com> X-Original-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:39:15 -0200 (BRST) X-Original-Sender: linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org X-Original-To: lkml <linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org> Lines: 20 Hi, So here it goes 2.4.16-pre1. Obviously the most important fix is the iput() one, which probably fixes the filesystem corruption problem people have been seeing. Please, people who have been experiencing the fs corruption problems test this and tell me its now working so I can release a final 2.4.16 ASAP. - Correctly sync inodes in iput() (Alexander Viro) - Make pagecache readahead size tunable via /proc (was in -ac tree) - Fix PPC kernel compilation problems (Paul Mackerras) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:34:49 +0100
From: Dominik Kubla <ku...@sciobyte.de>
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:39:15PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> - Correctly sync inodes in iput() (Alexander Viro)
Given the fact that this bug in a presumably stable linux kernel is
getting quite some attention in the media (electronic and otherwise). It
would be prudent to get out a 2.4.16 which fixes this bug right about
now.
Just my 2 cents...
Dominik Kubla
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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:15:43 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <sk...@ithnet.com>
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:34:49 +0100
Dominik Kubla <ku...@sciobyte.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:39:15PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > - Correctly sync inodes in iput() (Alexander Viro)
>
> Given the fact that this bug in a presumably stable linux kernel is
> getting quite some attention in the media (electronic and otherwise). It
> would be prudent to get out a 2.4.16 which fixes this bug right about
> now.
The "problem" effectively arises from _fast_ releasing "stable" versions. I
tend to think there should be a slowdown, not a speedup in stable releases,
just because the weird bugs we saw lately were all found shortly after release.
Maybe it would be a good idea to declare a good-looking pre-version "stable"
after a week delay (for testing) or so, omitting further patches.
I think there is no need to fear "bad" media appearance. It's just what makes
the difference: we try to solve the problem in case one is found _and_ talk
frankly about it. No need to hide.
It isn't really the same as shooting down XP/W2K/NT by type'ing a text-file in
a console-window...
Regards,
Stephan
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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:17:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@transmeta.com>
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
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> The "problem" effectively arises from _fast_ releasing "stable" versions.
Actually, I think that is just the _symptom_ of the basic issue: I do not
like being a maintainer.
Let's face it, we had similar problems in 2.2.x, for all the same reasons:
I'm simply not a good maintainer, because I'm too impatient and get too
bored with it.
The fact that I've held on to 2.4.x for too long, mostly due to the VM
problems, really doesn't help. That just makes me _less_ likely to be
careful. Especially when the last known VM problem was fixed (ie the
Oracle highmem deadlock), I had a very strong urge to just "get the d*mn
thing out to Marcelo".
I'm much happier doing development, and what I'm best at for Linux is at
doing the "hard decisions" - and not necessarily because of technical
reasons, but simply because I _can_ make them without too many people
grumbling. An example of this is to do the VM reorg in the first place,
something that at the time a lot of people disagreed with.
But I'm not a good, careful, maintainer. I never claim to be.
I bet you'll see better, more consistent quality from Marcelo.
Linus
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