linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [00/29] 2.6.32.6 stable review

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001251920110.5926@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:22:27 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable-review@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [00/29] 2.6.32.6 stable review

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:40:35AM +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> > Thomas Gleixner wrote On 24-01-2010 18:29:
> > > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > >> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:11:45 -0800 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.32.6 release.
> > >>> There are 29 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> > >>> this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
> > >>> us know.  If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
> > >>> to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> > >>>
> > >>> Responses should be made by Monday, January 24, 00:00:00 UTC.
> > >>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >> 2.6.32.6 will still contain the regression described in (for example)
> > >>
> > >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15117 
> > >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15005
> > >>
> > >> It's fixed with the below revert which has been in -mm (and only in
> > >> -mm) for ten days.
> > >>
> > >> I don't what's going on - perhaps we're waiting for Thomas, and he's
> > >> otherwise engaged.  There's a fix in the lkml thread "Re: [RFC PATCH
> > >> 0/4] clockevents: fix clockevent_devices list corruption after cpu
> > >> hotplug" to which Thomas replied
> > >>
> > >>     I just applied your patch, but kept the cpuweight check.  This
> > >>     is the least intrusive solution for now.  The logic needs an
> > >>     overhaul, but thats neither rc4 nor stable material"
> > > 
> > > Just sent the pull request for it. Sorry for the delay. The patch
> > > needs to go into 32.6 as well.
> > 
> > tick-internal.h should be included for this to fix build failure. Already included
> > in 2.6.33 with 8e1a928a2ed7e8.
> 
> Huh?  That says:
> 	clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
> 
> and does not sound like a problem that needs to be fixed for "real"
> users, right?
> 
> Or does .32.6 have a build problem somewhere?

If you pick ea9d8e3f45404d411c00ae67b45cc35c58265bb7 then you need
that include.

Thanks,

	tglx