linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

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Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:03:38 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..


* John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org> wrote:

> 
> Linus> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate
> Linus> doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had
> Linus> in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really
> Linus> couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some
> Linus> really stupid brown-paper-bag thing.
> 
> Linus> So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to
> Linus> make this series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few
> Linus> days. So please do give it a last good testing, and holler
> Linus> about any issues you find!
> 
> Just to let people know, I was running 2.6.23-rc for over 53 days 
> without any issues.  Mix of SCSI, Sata, tape drives, disks, MD, LVM, 
> SMP, etc.  I suspect we've got a pretty darn stable release coming out 
> soon.

that's pretty impressive! v2.6.23-rc2, right?

	Ingo
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