linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc5

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Message-ID: <20100921015525.GH31363@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:55:25 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc5

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:24:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I should have done this yesterday, but got distracted. So here's -rc5,
> one day late - so it got some extra updates from Greg thanks to my
> procrastination.
> 
> Nothing really stands out. Except perhaps that Al has obviously been
> looking at architecture sigreturn paths, and been finding problems,

s/sigreturn/signal/ and there's more pending patches in that pile; I'd
estimate that as 30-40, unless new classes of bugs show up in that crap.
In that case all bets are off...  And yes, I'm serious - it's that badly
bitrotten.  I'm holding back the obvious cleanups (e.g. there's a bunch
of common helpers asking to be introduced); for now it's plain bugfixes
and the estimate above is just for those.  Cleanups will have to wait for
the merge window...
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