linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:41:42 +0800
From:	Jike Song <albcamus@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc1

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So the two week merge window has closed, and just as well - because we had
> a lot of changes. As usual. Certainly I had no urges to keep the window
> open to get those last remaining few megabytes of patches..
>
> The changes follow roughly the same pattern they have before: one third
> crap (that is, "staging" - the new random drivers that aren't really ready
> to be merged properly but get into the tree in the hope that they'll get
> better some day), one third real drivers, and one third "rest".
>
> And just to not break a new tradition, there's a few new filesystems in
> this release too:
>
>  - "nilfs2" has been brewing for a long while, and is another
>   log-structured filesystem that does snapshotting. Just google for
>   'nilfs2' for more details.
>
>  - "exofs" implements a filesystem on top of an external object store
>   (ie not a traditional storage of a linear array of anonymous blocks,
>   but a "smart" disk that does objects). See
>
>                Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt
>
>   for some details.
>
>  - fscache/cachefiles is not really a filesystem, but infrastructure to do
>   caching of remote filesystems in the local filesystem, and NFS and AFS
>   have been updated to be able to use it.
>
> I'm personally hoping that we'll run out of filesystems rather than
> continue this new tradition indefinitely, but we'll see.
>
> But we've got older filesystems updated too: btrfs hopefully uses less
> stack space and is usable with a 4k stack, reiserfs got some updates, and
> a lot of other filesystems got minor refreshes. The ext3 changes are small
> enough to not show up in any dirstat, but hey, I think the fsync latency
> changes are interesting and probably more relevant to lots of people than
> most of the other changes.
>
> Other? Arch updates - amainly rm, powerpc, sh and x86. Firmware updates.
> And lots and lots of driver updates, including some more core
> suspend/resume changes (hopefully the last really fundamental ones).
>
> Go out and try it,
>
>                Linus

There is no way to build if one has CONFIG_SERIAL_MAX3100 selected to
be 'y' or 'm' - there is not max3100.c at all...


-- 
Thanks,
Jike
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