linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [patch 00/69] -stable review

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 20:36:51 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...GC.CA>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 00/69] -stable review

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote:
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org 
> > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org] De la part de Chuck Ebbert
> > Envoy? : 21 mai 2007 18:24
> > 
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:31:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:16:12 -0700
> > >> Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.21.2 release.
> > >> Gee a lot of these are fixing recently-added regressions :( ...
> > > 
> > > If only it would fix all of them...
> > > 
> > > Michal's list [1] currently contains 51 different regressions in
> > > 2.6.21 compared to 2.6.20 (12 of them were already reported before
> > > 2.6.21 was released).
> > 
> > Yeah, 2.6.21 seems awfully buggy, and patches to fix many of 
> > the bugs haven't appeared.
> > 
> > Another 2.6.20 update seems to be in order...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If there is a new stable 2.6.20 / 2.6.21, would it be possible that they both contain also this patch to keep the same behaviour between 2.6.20 -> 2.6.22 kernels regarding paravirt_ops GPL export?
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

Why?  Is there an in-kernel use for that export?

thanks,

greg k-h
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