Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Bill Davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch > > > >is this critical? > > Wasn't part of the Linus proposal that it had to fix an oops or > non-functional feature? We're working on the criteria, should have some

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: Unless it's crashing for people, stack usage is IMO a wanted-fix not needed-fix. nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch is this critical? Wasn't part of the Linus proposal that it had to fix an oops or non-functional feature? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:18 +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote: > > Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than > > unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new > > devices you can break things that have worked for

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:18 +, Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote: Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new devices you can break things that have worked for ages.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: Unless it's crashing for people, stack usage is IMO a wanted-fix not needed-fix. nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch is this critical? Wasn't part of the Linus proposal that it had to fix an oops or non-functional feature? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Bill Davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch is this critical? Wasn't part of the Linus proposal that it had to fix an oops or non-functional feature? We're working on the criteria, should have some updates posted

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote: > Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than > unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new > devices you can break things that have worked for ages. You can however plan for them in advance. Guess why

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote: Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new devices you can break things that have worked for ages. You can however plan for them in advance. Guess why the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Shawn Starr wrote: Sure, I can do this. Wrt to trivial patches, will these patches that go into rusty's patch bot go into Linus's tree or into the -mm tree? The reason I ask that is because a trivial patch may fix an oops if there's an off-by-one problem and typically I'd submit that to the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-06 Thread Shawn Starr
Sure, I can do this. Wrt to trivial patches, will these patches that go into rusty's patch bot go into Linus's tree or into the -mm tree? The reason I ask that is because a trivial patch may fix an oops if there's an off-by-one problem and typically I'd submit that to the trivial patch bot.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-06 Thread Shawn Starr
Sure, I can do this. Wrt to trivial patches, will these patches that go into rusty's patch bot go into Linus's tree or into the -mm tree? The reason I ask that is because a trivial patch may fix an oops if there's an off-by-one problem and typically I'd submit that to the trivial patch bot.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Shawn Starr wrote: Sure, I can do this. Wrt to trivial patches, will these patches that go into rusty's patch bot go into Linus's tree or into the -mm tree? The reason I ask that is because a trivial patch may fix an oops if there's an off-by-one problem and typically I'd submit that to the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > Sounds great, I can be a QA resource for what machines I have. > > How do people get involved in QAing these releases? Get the last release and test it out. If you have problems, and have simple/obvious patches, send them on.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Greg KH
; > > > > >Is this really a big deal? > > If you are pushing linux-release to Linus/Andrew rapidly, quick fixes > will land in linux-2.6 rapidly, and more invasive stuff will land only > in linux-2.6 when the invasive stuff is ready to go. It even takes the > pressure of

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:53:43AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:28:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:06, Lee Revell wrote: >On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What he said! Perfectly good patches, which fix real problems >> would appear to be sitting in testing/broken_out till bit rot or >> ???. >> >> If you want a testers testimony, I'm

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What he said! Perfectly good patches, which fix real problems would > appear to be sitting in testing/broken_out till bit rot or ???. > > If you want a testers testimony, I'm running the bk-ieee1394.patch, > and all I can say at this

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining >> > trees full of good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of > > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know > > whether something should be

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread L. A. Walsh
ertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Summary of changes from v2.6.11 to v2.6.11.1 Dmitry Torokhov: o Fix keyboards for Dell machines Greg Kroah-Hartman: o Linux 2.6.11.1 Olof Johansson: o Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec Rene

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Yup, BK could definitely handle that... However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing one patch and saying "remove that one". So

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Yup, BK could definitely handle that... However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing one patch and saying "remove that one". In

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know > whether something should be eventually used or not. Wait a minute - why would

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Yup, BK could definitely handle that... However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing one patch and saying "remove that one". So it's entirely

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Russell King wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix. Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus, they can

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix. > > Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus, > they can revert

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix. Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus, they can revert them, or

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Russell King wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix. Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus, they can

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Yup, BK could definitely handle that... However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing one patch and saying remove that one. So it's entirely

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know whether something should be eventually used or not. Wait a minute - why would

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Yup, BK could definitely handle that... However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing one patch and saying remove that one. In

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Yup, BK could definitely handle that... However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing one patch and saying remove that one. So

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread L. A. Walsh
v2.6.11 to v2.6.11.1 Dmitry Torokhov: o Fix keyboards for Dell machines Greg Kroah-Hartman: o Linux 2.6.11.1 Olof Johansson: o Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec Rene Rebe: o trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know whether something should be

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: What he said! Perfectly good patches, which fix real problems would appear to be sitting in testing/broken_out till bit rot or ???. If you want a testers testimony, I'm running the bk-ieee1394.patch, and all I can say at this point is

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:06, Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: What he said! Perfectly good patches, which fix real problems would appear to be sitting in testing/broken_out till bit rot or ???. If you want a testers testimony, I'm running the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:53:43AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:28:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Greg KH
linux-release to Linus/Andrew rapidly, quick fixes will land in linux-2.6 rapidly, and more invasive stuff will land only in linux-2.6 when the invasive stuff is ready to go. It even takes the pressure off pushing invasive stuff ASAP. Have you pushed linux-2.6.11.1 upstream yet

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-05 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: Sounds great, I can be a QA resource for what machines I have. How do people get involved in QAing these releases? Get the last release and test it out. If you have problems, and have simple/obvious patches, send them on.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:28:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply > > > should not have been there. >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread James Bourne
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > is this critical? > > > > Doubt it, unless the succeeding patches have a dependency on it. But the > > other patches have not been tested

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Sounds great, I can be a QA resource for what machines I have. How do people get involved in QAing these releases? What other help? Shawn. > List: linux-kernel > Subject: Linux 2.6.11.1 > From: Greg KH > Date: 2005-03-04 17:53:02 > Message-ID: <2005

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:48:20PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > --- > > > > I've released the 2.6.11.1 patch: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/patch-2.6.11.1.gz > > > > With a detailed changelog at: >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I > > > was > > > planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be > > > errata-only. > > > >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. Just to test things out a bit... Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. > > > > I was > > > > planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:54:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:34:22PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > From a purely process point of view, my concern would be making sure > that everything that goes into 2.6.X.Y (e.g. 2.6.11.1) makes it into > 2.6.X+1 (e.g. 2.6.12). It will be so. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch > > > setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch > > > dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch > > > ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch > > >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch > > setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch > > dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch > > ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch > > nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch > >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Ok, care to forward them on? > > > > Sure. How do they get to Linus? > > I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. > That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Ok, care to forward them on? > > Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said: > > The problem they fix is that currently: > Client A holds a lock > Client B tries to get the lock and blocks > Client A drops the lock > **Client B doesn't get the lock

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
rapidly, and more invasive stuff will land only in linux-2.6 when the invasive stuff is ready to go. It even takes the pressure off pushing invasive stuff ASAP. Have you pushed linux-2.6.11.1 upstream yet? :) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was > planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be > errata-only. Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? linux-release team

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply > > should not have been there. > > Is this really a big deal? Once? No. If it ends up being "par for the course",

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply > should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Ok, care to forward them on? > > > > > > > > Sure. How do

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. ... > nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch ... Different people want different things with our 2.6.x.y. I would hope that criteria include (i) patch is

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > Ok, care to forward them on? > > > > > > Sure. How do they get to Linus? > > > > I'll just pull from the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was > > planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be > > errata-only. > > Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? > Hm, odds are the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Trond Myklebust
fr den 04.03.2005 Klokka 12:44 (-0800) skreiv Andrew Morton: > nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch > nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch > nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch > nfsd--svcrpc-rename-pg_authenticate.patch >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of > > releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. > > Just to test things out a bit... > > Here's the list of things

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > See the comments above the part you snipped off, that stated the > infrastructure is still being worked on :) > Damn, I somehow missed that paragraph. Well, I've read the whole darn thread and still am getting work done. I guess I've

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of > releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. Just to test things out a bit... Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on sending them in

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Ian Pilcher
From a purely process point of view, my concern would be making sure that everything that goes into 2.6.X.Y (e.g. 2.6.11.1) makes it into 2.6.X+1 (e.g. 2.6.12). -- Ian Pilcher[EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > --- > > I've released the 2.6.11.1 patch: > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/patch-2.6.11.1.gz > > With a detailed changelog at: > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/ChangeLog-2.6.11.1 >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:28:58PM +0100, Paolo wrote: > Out of curiosity, are you going to include the -as branch ? The whole thing? No, see previous comments about the contents of the -as and -ac "branches" in the big lkml thread. But if people will forward on bits and pieces of the -as and

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Paolo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: | On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:28:58PM +0100, Paolo wrote: | |>Out of curiosity, are you going to include the -as branch ? | | | The whole thing? No, see previous comments about the contents of the | -as and -ac "branches" in the big lkml

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Paolo wrote: Out of curiosity, are you going to include the -as branch ? The -as stuff should be built on top of 2.6.11.X. 2.6.11.X should not be "every fix under the sun, until 2.6.12 is released." Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Paolo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | For those of you who haven't waded through the huge "RFD: Kernel release | numbering" thread on lkml to realize that we are now going to start | putting out 2.6.x.y releases, here's the summary: | | A few of us $suckers will be trying to

Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
= Dmitry Torokhov: o Fix keyboards for Dell machines Greg Kroah-Hartman: o Linux 2.6.11.1 Olof Johansson: o Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec Rene Rebe: o trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch itself, > as it is small enough to do so. Here it is diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00 +++ b/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch itself, as it is small enough to do so. Here it is diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00 +++ b/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00

Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
Torokhov: o Fix keyboards for Dell machines Greg Kroah-Hartman: o Linux 2.6.11.1 Olof Johansson: o Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec Rene Rebe: o trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Paolo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | For those of you who haven't waded through the huge RFD: Kernel release | numbering thread on lkml to realize that we are now going to start | putting out 2.6.x.y releases, here's the summary: | | A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Paolo wrote: Out of curiosity, are you going to include the -as branch ? The -as stuff should be built on top of 2.6.11.X. 2.6.11.X should not be every fix under the sun, until 2.6.12 is released. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:28:58PM +0100, Paolo wrote: Out of curiosity, are you going to include the -as branch ? The whole thing? No, see previous comments about the contents of the -as and -ac branches in the big lkml thread. But if people will forward on bits and pieces of the -as and -ac

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Paolo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: | On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:28:58PM +0100, Paolo wrote: | |Out of curiosity, are you going to include the -as branch ? | | | The whole thing? No, see previous comments about the contents of the | -as and -ac branches in the big lkml

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: --- I've released the 2.6.11.1 patch: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/patch-2.6.11.1.gz With a detailed changelog at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/ChangeLog-2.6.11.1 A

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Ian Pilcher
From a purely process point of view, my concern would be making sure that everything that goes into 2.6.X.Y (e.g. 2.6.11.1) makes it into 2.6.X+1 (e.g. 2.6.12). -- Ian Pilcher[EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. Just to test things out a bit... Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on sending them in for

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: See the comments above the part you snipped off, that stated the infrastructure is still being worked on :) Damn, I somehow missed that paragraph. Well, I've read the whole darn thread and still am getting work done. I guess I've

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. Just to test things out a bit... Here's the list of things which we might

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Trond Myklebust
fr den 04.03.2005 Klokka 12:44 (-0800) skreiv Andrew Morton: nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch nfsd--svcrpc-rename-pg_authenticate.patch

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be errata-only. Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? Hm, odds are the nfsd one

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. That tree has

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. ... nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch ... Different people want different things with our 2.6.x.y. I would hope that criteria include (i) patch is obvious,

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? Once? No. If it ends up being par for the course, it's bad.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be errata-only. Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? linux-release team

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
rapidly, and more invasive stuff will land only in linux-2.6 when the invasive stuff is ready to go. It even takes the pressure off pushing invasive stuff ASAP. Have you pushed linux-2.6.11.1 upstream yet? :) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said: The problem they fix is that currently: Client A holds a lock Client B tries to get the lock and blocks Client A drops the lock **Client B doesn't get the lock immediately,

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix. - To unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:34:22PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: From a purely process point of view, my concern would be making sure that everything that goes into 2.6.X.Y (e.g. 2.6.11.1) makes it into 2.6.X+1 (e.g. 2.6.12). It will be so. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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