
fabio.comolli at gmail
Dec 3, 2009, 1:07 AM
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It seems that the incremental patch rc8-final is missing on kernel.org. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds [at] linux-foundation> wrote: > > This release _feels_ long overdue due to two empty weeks for me (kernel > summit and thanksgiving week vacation), but it's actually less than three > months since 2.6.31, so I guess it's actually not that far off the normal > schedule. > > I've been merging a few things that were pending while I was offline, but > it really seems to have been pretty quiet. The biggest thing since -rc8 > is the horribly timed stability fixes for fscache, which caused some > hickups and I really wish it hadn't happened that way, but apart from that > it's mainly small updates (and mainly drivers). > > The dirstat from -rc8 looks like > >  2.7% arch/blackfin/ >  5.8% arch/ >  2.1% drivers/misc/eeprom/ >  3.5% drivers/net/e1000e/ >  9.6% drivers/net/ >  3.9% drivers/staging/ >  2.0% drivers/usb/musb/ >  2.8% drivers/usb/ >  34.8% drivers/ >  4.1% fs/cachefiles/ >  24.9% fs/fscache/ >  32.6% fs/ >  14.5% kernel/ >  3.7% net/ > > and that fs/ and kernel/ noise is mostly from that fscache thing (the > kernel subdirectory part is the "slow-work" stuff that fscache uses), and > the shortlog is appended. > > As to the "big feature" changes in 2.6.32 since 31 - I think we have a > release without any actual new filesystem for once, but there's been a > fair amount of changes to btrfs, and the block layer writeback itself has > been through major updates, and the whole per-bdi writeback thing is a > pretty big change. > > Other rather noticeable changes are in KSM (both intel and radeon) and in > drivers all over the place. As usual, kernelnewbies (and other sites, for > that matter) has more details for people who want to delve into it all by > subsystem. > >         Linus > > --- > Ajay Kumar Gupta (2): >    USB: musb: Remove unwanted message in boot log >    USB: musb: fix ISOC Tx programming for CPPI DMAs > > Alan Cox (2): >    V4L/DVB (13530): Fix wrong parameter order in memset >    tty_port: handle the nonblocking open of a dead port corner case > > Alan Stern (2): >    PM: fix irq enable/disable in runtime PM code >    USB: EHCI: don't send Clear-TT-Buffer following a STALL > > Alek Du (1): >    gpio: Langwell GPIO driver bugfixes > > Alex Chiang (1): >    cciss: make device attrs static > > Alexander Beregalov (1): >    Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev() > > Alexey Kuznetsov (1): >    [SCSI] fix crash when disconnecting usb storage > > Alexey Starikovskiy (1): >    ACPICA: Silence the warning about _BIF returning the buffer > > Amit Kumar Salecha (1): >    netxen: fix memory initialization > > Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul (1): >    sctp: on T3_RTX retransmit all the in-flight chunks > > Andrew Morton (1): >    drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c: needs semaphore.h > > André Goddard Rosa (1): >    Blackfin: fix cache Kconfig typo > > Anisse Astier (1): >    Input: i8042 - add Dell Vostro 1320, 1520 and 1720 to the reset list > > Antti Kaijanmäki (2): >    hso: fix debug routines >    hso: fix soft-lockup > > Antti Palosaari (1): >    V4L/DVB (13366): em28xx: fix Reddo DVB-C USB TV Box GPIO > > Anuj Aggarwal (1): >    ASoC: AIC23: Fixing infinite loop in resume path > > Atsushi Nemoto (1): >    SPI: spi_txx9: Fix bit rate calculation > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1): >    Staging: update TODO files > > Becky Bruce (1): >    powerpc: Fix DEBUG_HIGHMEM build break from d4515646699 > > Bruce Allan (7): >    e1000e: partial revert of 3ec2a2b8 plus FC workraround for 82577/8 >    e1000e: read of PHY register may access wrong page on 82578 >    e1000e: set flow control thresholds properly after enabling/disabling pause >    e1000e: add Tx timeout factor for 100Mbps >    e1000e: flow control thresholds not correct when changing mtu >    e1000e: remove unnecessary 82577 workaround causing link issues >    e1000e: do not initiate autonegotiation during OEM configuration > > Chris Wilson (2): >    drm/i915: Avoid potential sleep whilst holding spinlock >    drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM > > Chuck Ebbert (1): >    crypto: padlock-aes - Use the correct mask when checking whether copying is required > > Clemens Ladisch (1): >    drm/fb: fix FBIOGET/PUT_VSCREENINFO pixel clock handling > > Coly Li (1): >    ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs() > > Csaba Henk (1): >    fuse: reject O_DIRECT flag also in fuse_create > > Dan Carpenter (2): >    wan: cosa: drop chan->wsem on error path >    drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c: fix use after free in pcf50633_rtc_probe() > > Dan Williams (9): >    ioat: silence "dca disabled" messages >    ioat3: dca and raid operations are incompatible >    ioat2,3: disable asynchronous error notifications >    ioat3: specify valid address for disabled-Q or disabled-P >    ioat2,3: report all uncorrectable errors >    dmaengine: include xor/pq validate in device_has_all_tx_types() >    async_tx: build-time toggling of async_{syndrome,xor}_val dma support >    ioat3: fix pq completion versus channel deallocation race >    shdma: fix initialization error handling > > Daniel Glöckner (2): >    USB: musb: respect usb_request->zero in control requests >    USB: musb: Fix CPPI IRQs not being signaled > > Daniel Mack (2): >    [ARM] pxa/cpufreq: fix index assignments for end marker >    [ARM] pxamci: call mmc_remove_host() before freeing resources > > Dave Airlie (3): >    drm/radeon/kms: resume AGP by calling init. >    drm/radeon/kms: fix handling of d1/d2 vga >    drm/radeon/kms: read back register before writing in IIO. > > Dave Jones (1): >    Staging: hv: Fix argument order in incorrect memset invocations in hyperv driver. > > David Daney (3): >    MIPS: Octeon: Fix compile error in drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c >    Staging: Octeon: Use symbolic values for irq numbers. >    Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses. > > David Ford (1): >    ipv4: additional update of dev_net(dev) to struct *net in ip_fragment.c, NULL ptr OOPS > > David Howells (31): >    SLOW_WORK: Wait for outstanding work items belonging to a module to clear >    SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file >    SLOW_WORK: Allow the owner of a work item to determine if it is queued or not >    SLOW_WORK: Allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread is needed >    FS-Cache: Annotate slow-work runqueue proc lines for FS-Cache work items >    FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped >    FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functions >    FS-Cache: Clear netfs pointers in cookie after detaching object, not before >    FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored >    FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase >    FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available >    FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op() >    FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree >    FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure >    FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions >    FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter >    FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure >    FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death >    FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested >    CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache >    CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading >    CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy >    CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems >    CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object >    CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS >    SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user() >    SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE >    FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n >    9p: fix build breakage introduced by FS-Cache >    SLOW_WORK: Fix the CONFIG_MODULES=n case >    SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs > > David J. Choi (1): >    drivers/net: ks8851_mll ethernet network driver -resubmit > > David S. Miller (8): >    sparc64: Fix definition of VMEMMAP_SIZE. >    sunsab: Do not set sunsab_reg.cons right before registering minors. >    sunsu: Fix detection of SU ports which are RSC console or control. >    serial: suncore: Add 'ignore_line' argument to sunserial_console_match(). >    serial: suncore: Fix RSC/LOM handling in sunserial_console_termios(). >    sunsu: Pass true 'ignore_line' to console match when RSC or LOM console. >    sunsu: Use sunserial_console_termios() in sunsu_console_setup(). >    b44: Fix wedge when using netconsole. > > David Woodhouse (1): >    jffs2: Fix memory corruption in jffs2_read_inode_range() > > Eric Dumazet (4): >    ieee802154: dont leak skbs in ieee802154_fake_xmit() >    veth: Fix veth_get_stats() >    pktgen: Fix device name compares >    pktgen: Fix netdevice unregister > > Eric W. Biederman (1): >    USB: ftdi_sio: Keep going when write errors are encountered. > > Florian Fainelli (3): >    ep93xx-eth: check for zero MAC address on probe, not on device open >    rc32434_wdt: fix compilation failure >    MIPS: RB532: Fix devices.c compilation. > > Geert Uytterhoeven (3): >    net: ETHOC should depend on HAS_DMA >    V4L/DVB (13412): SMS_SIANO_MDTV should depend on HAS_DMA >    fbdev: Migrate mailing lists to vger > > Gernot Hillier (1): >    USB: Add support for Mobilcom Debitel USB UMTS Surf-Stick to option driver > > Gertjan van Wingerde (1): >    .gitignore: Add bzip2 compressed files > > Giuseppe CAVALLARO (2): >    stmmac: fixed a compilation error when use the external timer >    stmmac: do not fail when the timer cannot be used. > > Graf Yang (1): >    Blackfin: fix SMP build error in start_thread() > > Guennadi Liakhovetski (2): >    V4L/DVB (13343): v4l: add more missing linux/sched.h includes >    V4L/DVB (13344): soc-camera: properly initialise the device object when reusing > > H Hartley Sweeten (1): >    [WATCHDOG] rc32434_wdt.c: use resource_size() > > Haiyang Zhang (2): >    Staging: hv: Fix vmbus event handler bug >    Staging: hv: Fix some missing author names > > Hans Verkuil (3): >    V4L/DVB (13321): radio-gemtek-pci: fix double mutex_lock >    V4L/DVB (13371): davinci: remove stray duplicate config pointer >    V4L/DVB (13481): sh_mobile_ceu_camera: fix compile warning > > Harald Welte (1): >    [CPUFREQ] Enable ACPI PDC handshake for VIA/Centaur CPUs > > Helge Deller (2): >    parisc: fix unwind with recent gcc versions >    modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs > > Hemant Pedanekar (1): >    ide: fix ioctl to pass requested transfer mode to ide_find_dma_mode instead of UDMA6 > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (1): >    thinkpad-acpi: fix detection of old ThinkPads > > Huang Ying (1): >    crypto: gcm - fix another complete call in complete fuction > > Ivan Vecera (1): >    r8169: restore mac addr in rtl8169_remove_one and rtl_shutdown > > James Bottomley (1): >    [SCSI] fix async scan add/remove race resulting in an oops > > Jaswinder Singh Rajput (1): >    ixgbe: move tc variable to CONFIG_IXGBE_DCB > > Jay Fenlason (2): >    firewire: ohci: Make cycleMatch ISO transmission work >    firewire: ohci: pass correct iso xmit timestamps to core > > Jean Delvare (2): >    MAINTAINERS: Add missing i2c files >    i2c: Fix userspace_device list corruption > > Jean PIHET (1): >    ARM: 5793/1: ARM: Check put_user fail in do_signal when enable OABI_COMPAT > > Jens Axboe (3): >    SLOW_WORK: Make slow_work_ops ->get_ref/->put_ref optional >    SLOW_WORK: Add support for cancellation of slow work >    SLOW_WORK: Add delayed_slow_work support > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1): >    drm: make sure page protections are updated after changing vm_flags > > Jerome Glisse (3): >    drm/radeon/kms: Disable TV load detect on RS400,RC410,RS480 >    drm: mm always protect change to unused_nodes with unused_lock spinlock >    drm/radeon/kms: Report vga connector is connected according to ddc_probe > > Jerone Young (1): >    ACPI: Add Thinkpad T400, T500 to OSI(Linux) white-list > > Jesse Barnes (1): >    drm: work around EDIDs with bad htotal/vtotal values > > Jiang Yutang (1): >    sata_fsl: Split hard and soft reset > > Jie Zhang (1): >    Blackfin: fix typo in ptrace poking > > Joel Becker (1): >    ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2. > > Johannes Berg (5): >    mac80211: fix addba timer (again...) >    mac80211: fix resume >    rfkill: fix miscdev ops >    mac80211: fix two remote exploits >    mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling > > Johannes Weiner (2): >    rtc-x1205: fix rtc_time to y2k register value conversion >    rtc-x1205: reset clock to sane state after power failure > > John W. Linville (1): >    ath9k: set ps_default as false > > Julia Lawall (3): >    arch/alpha/kernel/sys_ruffian.c: Use DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST >    arch/alpha/kernel: Add kmalloc NULL tests >    VIDEO: Correct use of request_region/request_mem_region > > Kevin Wells (3): >    i2c: i2c-pnx: Limit minimum jiffie timeout to 2 >    i2c: i2c-pnx: Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension >    i2c: i2c-pnx: Added missing mach/i2c.h and linux/io.h header file includes > > Kuninori Morimoto (1): >    V4L/DVB (13345): soc-camera: sh_mobile_ceu_camera: call pm_runtime_disable > > Len Brown (1): >    ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for HP-Compaq C700 > > Linus Torvalds (1): >    Linux 2.6.32 > > Marc Dionne (1): >    CacheFiles: Update IMA counters when using dentry_open > > Mark Brown (3): >    ASoC: Fix suspend with active audio streams >    mfd: Correct WM831X_MAX_ISEL_VALUE >    regulator: Initialise wm831x structure pointor for ISINK driver > > Martin K. Petersen (1): >    [SCSI] sd: Return correct error code for DIF > > Martin Michlmayr (1): >    MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable early printk to fix boot problems on some systems. > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1): >    staging/go7007: Fix compilation by re-adding the missing s2250-loader.h > > Maxime Bizon (1): >    bcm63xx_uart: Fix serial driver compile breakage. > > Michael Cree (1): >    Alpha: Rearrange thread info flags fixing two regressions > > Michael Hennerich (1): >    Blackfin: fix suspend/resume failure with some on-chip ROMs > > Michal Simek (1): >    tty/of_serial: add missing ns16550a id > > Michele Jr De Candia (1): >    i2c/tsl2550: Fix lux value in extended mode > > Mike Frysinger (3): >    Blackfin: update anomaly lists >    Blackfin: work around testset anomaly 05000477 >    Blackfin: check for anomaly 05000475 > > Narender Kumar (2): >    netxen: fix promisc for NX2031. >    netxen : fix BOND_MODE_TLB/ALB mode. > > NeilBrown (1): >    md: revert incorrect fix for read error handling in raid1. > > Oliver Neukum (1): >    USB: work around for EHCI with quirky periodic schedules > > Olivier Lorin (1): >    V4L/DVB (13372a): MAINTAINERS: addition of gspca_gl860 driver > > Patrick McHardy (4): >    netfilter: xt_osf: fix xt_osf_remove_callback() return value >    netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context in seq_show() >    netfilter: xt_limit: fix invalid return code in limit_mt_check() >    macvlan: fix gso_max_size setting > > Pavel Machek (1): >    [ARM] pxa/spitz: fix compile regression on spitz > > Pete Eberlein (1): >    V4L/DVB (13372): staging/go7007: fix mutex function usage for s2250 > > Peter Feuerer (1): >    acerhdf: return temperature in milidegree instead of degree > > Peter Horton (1): >    aoe: prevent cache aliases > > Ralf Baechle (3): >    MIPS: Fix build error if __xchg() is not getting inlined. >    MIPS: Add missing definition for MADV_HWPOISON. >    MIPS: Fix MIPS I build. > > Randy Dunlap (1): >    sysfs: fix SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 prompt > > Robert Lowery (1): >    V4L/DVB (13436): cxusb: Fix hang on DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 (rev 1) > > Roel Kluin (3): >    netfilter: xt_osf: fix xt_osf_remove_callback() return value >    thinkpad-acpi: fix sign of ERESTARTSYS return >    Blackfin: fix memset in smp_send_reschedule() and -stop() > > Roger Oksanen (1): >    e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure > > Romit Dasgupta (1): >    Thaw refrigerated bdi flusher threads before invoking kthread_stop on them > > Russell King (7): >    [ARM] kmap: fix build errors with DEBUG_HIGHMEM enabled >    ARM: PNX4008: fix watchdog device driver name >    ARM: PNX4008: i2c-pnx: use the same dev_id for request_irq and free_irq >    MAINTAINERS: add maintainer information for AMBA primecell drivers >    [ARM] Update mach-types >    ALSA: AACI: fix AC97 multiple-open bug >    ALSA: AACI: fix recording bug > > Russell King - ARM Linux (1): >    NET: smc91x: Fix irq flags > > Rusty Russell (1): >    param: don't complain about unused module parameters. > > Sam Ravnborg (1): >    kbuild: stepping down as maintainer > > Samuel Thibault (1): >    Input: keyboard - fix braille keyboard keysym generation > > Sergei Shtylyov (1): >    USB: musb_gadget: fix STALL handling > > Steve French (3): >    [CIFS] fix oops in cifs_lookup during net boot >    [CIFS] Duplicate data on appending to some Samba servers >    [CIFS] Fix sparse warning > > Steve Glendinning (1): >    smsc9420: prevent BUG() if ethtool is called with interface down > > Steven Rostedt (1): >    kconfig: Fix make O=<dir> local{mod,yes}config > > Sudhakar Rajashekhara (1): >    davinci: fb: fix frame buffer driver issues > > Sunil Mushran (2): >    ocfs2: Refresh documentation >    ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal > > Tao Ma (2): >    ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place. >    ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink. > > Thomas Dahlmann (1): >    usb: amd5536udc: fixed shared interrupt bug and warning oops > > Thomas Gleixner (1): >    alpha: Fixup last users of irq_chip->typename > > Wolfram Sang (1): >    at24: Use timeout also for read > > Wu Fengguang (1): >    netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context in seq_show() > > Wu Zhangjin (2): >    MIPS: Loongson: Disallow 4kB pages >    MIPS: Loongson: Switch from flatmem to sparsemem > > Zhenyu Wang (5): >    drm/i915: Fix and cleanup DPLL calculation for Ironlake >    drm/i915: HDMI hardware workaround for Ironlake >    drm/i915: Add more registers save/restore for Ironlake suspend >    agp/intel: new host bridge support >    drm/i915: Fix CRT hotplug detect by checking really no channels attached > > Zou, Nanhai (1): >    drm/i915: Fix IRQ stall issue on Ironlake > > chaithrika [at] ti (1): >    TI DaVinci EMAC: Minor macro related updates > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo [at] vger > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo [at] vger 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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