linux-kernel - Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released)

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Date:	Mon, 1 Jan 2007 14:28:46 +0100
From:	"Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released)

On 1/1/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote:
>
> In order to not get in trouble with MADR ("Mothers Against Drunk
> Releases") I decided to cut the 2.6.20-rc3 release early rather than wait
> for midnight, because it's bound to be new years _somewhere_ out there. So
> here's to a happy 2007 for everybody.
>
> The big thing at least for me personally is that nasty shared mmap
> corruption fix, but there's a number of other changes in here, many of
> them just documentation (and some media and network drivers). Shortlog and
> diffstat appended..
>
> The git trees have been updated, and the tar-tree and patches seem to have
> finisged crawling out my poor DSL connection too.
>
> As usual, mirroring might take a while, although the delay has not been
> all that horrible lately, so it's probably going to be up-to-date by the
> time the hangovers are mostly gone.
>
> At which point the first thing on any self-respecting geek's mind should
> obviously be: "is there a new kernel release for me to try?"
>
> Right?

Right ! And this one is still broken in -rc3:

Subject    : kernel panics on boot (libata-sff)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/3/99
            http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/153
            http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/33
Submitter  : Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>
Caused-By  : Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
            commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f
Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Status     : people are working on a fix

Happy 2007 everyone,

--alessandro

"...when I get it, I _get_ it"

     (Lara Eidemiller)
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