linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

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Message-Id: <200711171114.16299.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:14:15 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

On Saturday, 17 of November 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Hmmm.. Lots of small fixes, some cleanups, and a few things like the cris 
> updates that aren't really either, but which won't affect any normal user, 
> and will hopefully make it easier to sync up in the future.
> 
> Network driver fixes, some IDE and infiniband updates, some late cpufreq 
> updates, and a hwmon update.
> 
> On the architecture side, in addition to the afore-mentioned cris updates, 
> there are some sh, arm, powerpc and mips updates, and also one final x86 
> unification cleanup (and I really mean it - the rest can wait until after 
> 2.6.24, but with this one the x86 configuration really is fairly merged, 
> and both i386 and x86_64 are really just special cases of the "x86" 
> architecture in the configurator).
> 
> And cifs and ocfs2 filesystem updates to round it all up.
> 
> Nothing really exciting. A few things got reverted due to regressions, and
> in general hopefully the regression counts are starting to shrink.

Yes, they are.

Speaking of which, would you mind merging the patch at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/1/246

To my eyes it's a regression fix, but no one has been pushing it upstream.

Greetings,
Rafael
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