Can someone clarify the RHEL6.5 kernel issues?

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:22:39PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> We're about to finalize the 1.6.5.2 release. The (or at least my) idea is 
> that these 1.6.5.x releases should provide a timely resolution for current 
> actual problems for which the 1.6.6 release would be too late. To allow 
> releasing without a long public testing phase, the changes should obviously 
> be kept to the minimum.
> 
> The changes currently foreseen to go into 1.6.5.2 are here:
> 
> http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,status:open+project:openafs+branch:openafs-stable-1_6_5_x,n,z
> 
> Right now, these include support for OS X 10.9, a fix relevant for the RHEL 
> 6.5 kernel, and a fix for tmpfs caches under Linux 3.1+ kernels.
> 
> One open question is whether http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,10457 (which 
> in addition would require changes 10456, 10458, 10472 and 10518) can wait for 
> 1.6.6. It's believed to be required for the client on Ubuntu 14.04, and 
> that's the only known common use case right now.
> 
> Does anyone know about other use cases for this set of changes?
> 
> Can anyone familiar with the Ubuntu release process tell whether a 1.6.6 
> release in January or (hopefully not) February would be too late to make sure 
> 14.04 will come with working AFS client packages?
> 
> Thanks
>       Stephan
> 
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