Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:07:32 +0100
From:	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32

It seems that the incremental patch rc8-final is missing on kernel.org.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> This release _feels_ long overdue due to two empty weeks for me (kernel
> summit and thanksgiving week vacation), but it's actually less than three
> months since 2.6.31, so I guess it's actually not that far off the normal
> schedule.
>
> I've been merging a few things that were pending while I was offline, but
> it really seems to have been pretty quiet. The biggest thing since -rc8
> is the horribly timed stability fixes for fscache, which caused some
> hickups and I really wish it hadn't happened that way, but apart from that
> it's mainly small updates (and mainly drivers).
>
> The dirstat from -rc8 looks like
>
>   2.7% arch/blackfin/
>   5.8% arch/
>   2.1% drivers/misc/eeprom/
>   3.5% drivers/net/e1000e/
>   9.6% drivers/net/
>   3.9% drivers/staging/
>   2.0% drivers/usb/musb/
>   2.8% drivers/usb/
>  34.8% drivers/
>   4.1% fs/cachefiles/
>  24.9% fs/fscache/
>  32.6% fs/
>  14.5% kernel/
>   3.7% net/
>
> and that fs/ and kernel/ noise is mostly from that fscache thing (the
> kernel subdirectory part is the "slow-work" stuff that fscache uses), and
> the shortlog is appended.
>
> As to the "big feature" changes in 2.6.32 since 31 - I think we have a
> release without any actual new filesystem for once, but there's been a
> fair amount of changes to btrfs, and the block layer writeback itself has
> been through major updates, and the whole per-bdi writeback thing is a
> pretty big change.
>
> Other rather noticeable changes are in KSM (both intel and radeon) and in
> drivers all over the place. As usual, kernelnewbies (and other sites, for
> that matter) has more details for people who want to delve into it all by
> subsystem.
>
>                Linus
>
> ---
> Ajay Kumar Gupta (2):
>      USB: musb: Remove unwanted message in boot log
>      USB: musb: fix ISOC Tx programming for CPPI DMAs
>
> Alan Cox (2):
>      V4L/DVB (13530): Fix wrong parameter order in memset
>      tty_port: handle the nonblocking open of a dead port corner case
>
> Alan Stern (2):
>      PM: fix irq enable/disable in runtime PM code
>      USB: EHCI: don't send Clear-TT-Buffer following a STALL
>
> Alek Du (1):
>      gpio: Langwell GPIO driver bugfixes
>
> Alex Chiang (1):
>      cciss: make device attrs static
>
> Alexander Beregalov (1):
>      Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev()
>
> Alexey Kuznetsov (1):
>      [SCSI] fix crash when disconnecting usb storage
>
> Alexey Starikovskiy (1):
>      ACPICA: Silence the warning about _BIF returning the buffer
>
> Amit Kumar Salecha (1):
>      netxen: fix memory initialization
>
> Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul (1):
>      sctp: on T3_RTX retransmit all the in-flight chunks
>
> Andrew Morton (1):
>      drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c: needs semaphore.h
>
> André Goddard Rosa (1):
>      Blackfin: fix cache Kconfig typo
>
> Anisse Astier (1):
>      Input: i8042 - add Dell Vostro 1320, 1520 and 1720 to the reset list
>
> Antti Kaijanmäki (2):
>      hso: fix debug routines
>      hso: fix soft-lockup
>
> Antti Palosaari (1):
>      V4L/DVB (13366): em28xx: fix Reddo DVB-C USB TV Box GPIO
>
> Anuj Aggarwal (1):
>      ASoC: AIC23: Fixing infinite loop in resume path
>
> Atsushi Nemoto (1):
>      SPI: spi_txx9: Fix bit rate calculation
>
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
>      Staging: update TODO files
>
> Becky Bruce (1):
>      powerpc: Fix DEBUG_HIGHMEM build break from d4515646699
>
> Bruce Allan (7):
>      e1000e: partial revert of 3ec2a2b8 plus FC workraround for 82577/8
>      e1000e: read of PHY register may access wrong page on 82578
>      e1000e: set flow control thresholds properly after enabling/disabling pause
>      e1000e: add Tx timeout factor for 100Mbps
>      e1000e: flow control thresholds not correct when changing mtu
>      e1000e: remove unnecessary 82577 workaround causing link issues
>      e1000e: do not initiate autonegotiation during OEM configuration
>
> Chris Wilson (2):
>      drm/i915: Avoid potential sleep whilst holding spinlock
>      drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM
>
> Chuck Ebbert (1):
>      crypto: padlock-aes - Use the correct mask when checking whether copying is required
>
> Clemens Ladisch (1):
>      drm/fb: fix FBIOGET/PUT_VSCREENINFO pixel clock handling
>
> Coly Li (1):
>      ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs()
>
> Csaba Henk (1):
>      fuse: reject O_DIRECT flag also in fuse_create
>
> Dan Carpenter (2):
>      wan: cosa: drop chan->wsem on error path
>      drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c: fix use after free in pcf50633_rtc_probe()
>
> Dan Williams (9):
>      ioat: silence "dca disabled" messages
>      ioat3: dca and raid operations are incompatible
>      ioat2,3: disable asynchronous error notifications
>      ioat3: specify valid address for disabled-Q or disabled-P
>      ioat2,3: report all uncorrectable errors
>      dmaengine: include xor/pq validate in device_has_all_tx_types()
>      async_tx: build-time toggling of async_{syndrome,xor}_val dma support
>      ioat3: fix pq completion versus channel deallocation race
>      shdma: fix initialization error handling
>
> Daniel Glöckner (2):
>      USB: musb: respect usb_request->zero in control requests
>      USB: musb: Fix CPPI IRQs not being signaled
>
> Daniel Mack (2):
>      [ARM] pxa/cpufreq: fix index assignments for end marker
>      [ARM] pxamci: call mmc_remove_host() before freeing resources
>
> Dave Airlie (3):
>      drm/radeon/kms: resume AGP by calling init.
>      drm/radeon/kms: fix handling of d1/d2 vga
>      drm/radeon/kms: read back register before writing in IIO.
>
> Dave Jones (1):
>      Staging: hv: Fix argument order in incorrect memset invocations in hyperv driver.
>
> David Daney (3):
>      MIPS: Octeon: Fix compile error in drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c
>      Staging: Octeon: Use symbolic values for irq numbers.
>      Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses.
>
> David Ford (1):
>      ipv4: additional update of dev_net(dev) to struct *net in ip_fragment.c, NULL ptr OOPS
>
> David Howells (31):
>      SLOW_WORK: Wait for outstanding work items belonging to a module to clear
>      SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file
>      SLOW_WORK: Allow the owner of a work item to determine if it is queued or not
>      SLOW_WORK: Allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread is needed
>      FS-Cache: Annotate slow-work runqueue proc lines for FS-Cache work items
>      FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
>      FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functions
>      FS-Cache: Clear netfs pointers in cookie after detaching object, not before
>      FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
>      FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
>      FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
>      FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
>      FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
>      FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
>      FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
>      FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
>      FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
>      FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
>      FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
>      CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
>      CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
>      CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
>      CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
>      CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
>      CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
>      SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
>      SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
>      FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
>      9p: fix build breakage introduced by FS-Cache
>      SLOW_WORK: Fix the CONFIG_MODULES=n case
>      SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
>
> David J. Choi (1):
>      drivers/net: ks8851_mll ethernet network driver -resubmit
>
> David S. Miller (8):
>      sparc64: Fix definition of VMEMMAP_SIZE.
>      sunsab: Do not set sunsab_reg.cons right before registering minors.
>      sunsu: Fix detection of SU ports which are RSC console or control.
>      serial: suncore: Add 'ignore_line' argument to sunserial_console_match().
>      serial: suncore: Fix RSC/LOM handling in sunserial_console_termios().
>      sunsu: Pass true 'ignore_line' to console match when RSC or LOM console.
>      sunsu: Use sunserial_console_termios() in sunsu_console_setup().
>      b44: Fix wedge when using netconsole.
>
> David Woodhouse (1):
>      jffs2: Fix memory corruption in jffs2_read_inode_range()
>
> Eric Dumazet (4):
>      ieee802154: dont leak skbs in ieee802154_fake_xmit()
>      veth: Fix veth_get_stats()
>      pktgen: Fix device name compares
>      pktgen: Fix netdevice unregister
>
> Eric W. Biederman (1):
>      USB: ftdi_sio: Keep going when write errors are encountered.
>
> Florian Fainelli (3):
>      ep93xx-eth: check for zero MAC address on probe, not on device open
>      rc32434_wdt: fix compilation failure
>      MIPS: RB532: Fix devices.c compilation.
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven (3):
>      net: ETHOC should depend on HAS_DMA
>      V4L/DVB (13412): SMS_SIANO_MDTV should depend on HAS_DMA
>      fbdev: Migrate mailing lists to vger
>
> Gernot Hillier (1):
>      USB: Add support for Mobilcom Debitel USB UMTS Surf-Stick to option driver
>
> Gertjan van Wingerde (1):
>      .gitignore: Add bzip2 compressed files
>
> Giuseppe CAVALLARO (2):
>      stmmac: fixed a compilation error when use the external timer
>      stmmac: do not fail when the timer cannot be used.
>
> Graf Yang (1):
>      Blackfin: fix SMP build error in start_thread()
>
> Guennadi Liakhovetski (2):
>      V4L/DVB (13343): v4l: add more missing linux/sched.h includes
>      V4L/DVB (13344): soc-camera: properly initialise the device object when reusing
>
> H Hartley Sweeten (1):
>      [WATCHDOG] rc32434_wdt.c: use resource_size()
>
> Haiyang Zhang (2):
>      Staging: hv: Fix vmbus event handler bug
>      Staging: hv: Fix some missing author names
>
> Hans Verkuil (3):
>      V4L/DVB (13321): radio-gemtek-pci: fix double mutex_lock
>      V4L/DVB (13371): davinci: remove stray duplicate config pointer
>      V4L/DVB (13481): sh_mobile_ceu_camera: fix compile warning
>
> Harald Welte (1):
>      [CPUFREQ] Enable ACPI PDC handshake for VIA/Centaur CPUs
>
> Helge Deller (2):
>      parisc: fix unwind with recent gcc versions
>      modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs
>
> Hemant Pedanekar (1):
>      ide: fix ioctl to pass requested transfer mode to ide_find_dma_mode instead of UDMA6
>
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (1):
>      thinkpad-acpi: fix detection of old ThinkPads
>
> Huang Ying (1):
>      crypto: gcm - fix another complete call in complete fuction
>
> Ivan Vecera (1):
>      r8169: restore mac addr in rtl8169_remove_one and rtl_shutdown
>
> James Bottomley (1):
>      [SCSI] fix async scan add/remove race resulting in an oops
>
> Jaswinder Singh Rajput (1):
>      ixgbe: move tc variable to CONFIG_IXGBE_DCB
>
> Jay Fenlason (2):
>      firewire: ohci: Make cycleMatch ISO transmission work
>      firewire: ohci: pass correct iso xmit timestamps to core
>
> Jean Delvare (2):
>      MAINTAINERS: Add missing i2c files
>      i2c: Fix userspace_device list corruption
>
> Jean PIHET (1):
>      ARM: 5793/1: ARM: Check put_user fail in do_signal when enable OABI_COMPAT
>
> Jens Axboe (3):
>      SLOW_WORK: Make slow_work_ops ->get_ref/->put_ref optional
>      SLOW_WORK: Add support for cancellation of slow work
>      SLOW_WORK: Add delayed_slow_work support
>
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
>      drm: make sure page protections are updated after changing vm_flags
>
> Jerome Glisse (3):
>      drm/radeon/kms: Disable TV load detect on RS400,RC410,RS480
>      drm: mm always protect change to unused_nodes with unused_lock spinlock
>      drm/radeon/kms: Report vga connector is connected according to ddc_probe
>
> Jerone Young (1):
>      ACPI: Add Thinkpad T400, T500 to OSI(Linux) white-list
>
> Jesse Barnes (1):
>      drm: work around EDIDs with bad htotal/vtotal values
>
> Jiang Yutang (1):
>      sata_fsl: Split hard and soft reset
>
> Jie Zhang (1):
>      Blackfin: fix typo in ptrace poking
>
> Joel Becker (1):
>      ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
>
> Johannes Berg (5):
>      mac80211: fix addba timer (again...)
>      mac80211: fix resume
>      rfkill: fix miscdev ops
>      mac80211: fix two remote exploits
>      mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling
>
> Johannes Weiner (2):
>      rtc-x1205: fix rtc_time to y2k register value conversion
>      rtc-x1205: reset clock to sane state after power failure
>
> John W. Linville (1):
>      ath9k: set ps_default as false
>
> Julia Lawall (3):
>      arch/alpha/kernel/sys_ruffian.c: Use DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST
>      arch/alpha/kernel: Add kmalloc NULL tests
>      VIDEO: Correct use of request_region/request_mem_region
>
> Kevin Wells (3):
>      i2c: i2c-pnx: Limit minimum jiffie timeout to 2
>      i2c: i2c-pnx: Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension
>      i2c: i2c-pnx: Added missing mach/i2c.h and linux/io.h header file includes
>
> Kuninori Morimoto (1):
>      V4L/DVB (13345): soc-camera: sh_mobile_ceu_camera: call pm_runtime_disable
>
> Len Brown (1):
>      ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for HP-Compaq C700
>
> Linus Torvalds (1):
>      Linux 2.6.32
>
> Marc Dionne (1):
>      CacheFiles: Update IMA counters when using dentry_open
>
> Mark Brown (3):
>      ASoC: Fix suspend with active audio streams
>      mfd: Correct WM831X_MAX_ISEL_VALUE
>      regulator: Initialise wm831x structure pointor for ISINK driver
>
> Martin K. Petersen (1):
>      [SCSI] sd: Return correct error code for DIF
>
> Martin Michlmayr (1):
>      MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable early printk to fix boot problems on some systems.
>
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
>      staging/go7007: Fix compilation by re-adding the missing s2250-loader.h
>
> Maxime Bizon (1):
>      bcm63xx_uart: Fix serial driver compile breakage.
>
> Michael Cree (1):
>      Alpha: Rearrange thread info flags fixing two regressions
>
> Michael Hennerich (1):
>      Blackfin: fix suspend/resume failure with some on-chip ROMs
>
> Michal Simek (1):
>      tty/of_serial: add missing ns16550a id
>
> Michele Jr De Candia (1):
>      i2c/tsl2550: Fix lux value in extended mode
>
> Mike Frysinger (3):
>      Blackfin: update anomaly lists
>      Blackfin: work around testset anomaly 05000477
>      Blackfin: check for anomaly 05000475
>
> Narender Kumar (2):
>      netxen: fix promisc for NX2031.
>      netxen : fix BOND_MODE_TLB/ALB mode.
>
> NeilBrown (1):
>      md: revert incorrect fix for read error handling in raid1.
>
> Oliver Neukum (1):
>      USB: work around for EHCI with quirky periodic schedules
>
> Olivier Lorin (1):
>      V4L/DVB (13372a): MAINTAINERS: addition of gspca_gl860 driver
>
> Patrick McHardy (4):
>      netfilter: xt_osf: fix xt_osf_remove_callback() return value
>      netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context in seq_show()
>      netfilter: xt_limit: fix invalid return code in limit_mt_check()
>      macvlan: fix gso_max_size setting
>
> Pavel Machek (1):
>      [ARM] pxa/spitz: fix compile regression on spitz
>
> Pete Eberlein (1):
>      V4L/DVB (13372): staging/go7007: fix mutex function usage for s2250
>
> Peter Feuerer (1):
>      acerhdf: return temperature in milidegree instead of degree
>
> Peter Horton (1):
>      aoe: prevent cache aliases
>
> Ralf Baechle (3):
>      MIPS: Fix build error if __xchg() is not getting inlined.
>      MIPS: Add missing definition for MADV_HWPOISON.
>      MIPS: Fix MIPS I build.
>
> Randy Dunlap (1):
>      sysfs: fix SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 prompt
>
> Robert Lowery (1):
>      V4L/DVB (13436): cxusb: Fix hang on DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 (rev 1)
>
> Roel Kluin (3):
>      netfilter: xt_osf: fix xt_osf_remove_callback() return value
>      thinkpad-acpi: fix sign of ERESTARTSYS return
>      Blackfin: fix memset in smp_send_reschedule() and -stop()
>
> Roger Oksanen (1):
>      e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure
>
> Romit Dasgupta (1):
>      Thaw refrigerated bdi flusher threads before invoking kthread_stop on them
>
> Russell King (7):
>      [ARM] kmap: fix build errors with DEBUG_HIGHMEM enabled
>      ARM: PNX4008: fix watchdog device driver name
>      ARM: PNX4008: i2c-pnx: use the same dev_id for request_irq and free_irq
>      MAINTAINERS: add maintainer information for AMBA primecell drivers
>      [ARM] Update mach-types
>      ALSA: AACI: fix AC97 multiple-open bug
>      ALSA: AACI: fix recording bug
>
> Russell King - ARM Linux (1):
>      NET: smc91x: Fix irq flags
>
> Rusty Russell (1):
>      param: don't complain about unused module parameters.
>
> Sam Ravnborg (1):
>      kbuild: stepping down as maintainer
>
> Samuel Thibault (1):
>      Input: keyboard - fix braille keyboard keysym generation
>
> Sergei Shtylyov (1):
>      USB: musb_gadget: fix STALL handling
>
> Steve French (3):
>      [CIFS] fix oops in cifs_lookup during net boot
>      [CIFS] Duplicate data on appending to some Samba servers
>      [CIFS] Fix sparse warning
>
> Steve Glendinning (1):
>      smsc9420: prevent BUG() if ethtool is called with interface down
>
> Steven Rostedt (1):
>      kconfig: Fix make O=<dir> local{mod,yes}config
>
> Sudhakar Rajashekhara (1):
>      davinci: fb: fix frame buffer driver issues
>
> Sunil Mushran (2):
>      ocfs2: Refresh documentation
>      ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal
>
> Tao Ma (2):
>      ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place.
>      ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink.
>
> Thomas Dahlmann (1):
>      usb: amd5536udc: fixed shared interrupt bug and warning oops
>
> Thomas Gleixner (1):
>      alpha: Fixup last users of irq_chip->typename
>
> Wolfram Sang (1):
>      at24: Use timeout also for read
>
> Wu Fengguang (1):
>      netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context in seq_show()
>
> Wu Zhangjin (2):
>      MIPS: Loongson: Disallow 4kB pages
>      MIPS: Loongson: Switch from flatmem to sparsemem
>
> Zhenyu Wang (5):
>      drm/i915: Fix and cleanup DPLL calculation for Ironlake
>      drm/i915: HDMI hardware workaround for Ironlake
>      drm/i915: Add more registers save/restore for Ironlake suspend
>      agp/intel: new host bridge support
>      drm/i915: Fix CRT hotplug detect by checking really no channels attached
>
> Zou, Nanhai (1):
>      drm/i915: Fix IRQ stall issue on Ironlake
>
> chaithrika@...com (1):
>      TI DaVinci EMAC: Minor macro related updates
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