Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266786AbUJFFVd (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:21:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267189AbUJFFVd (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:21:33 -0400 Received: from smtp203.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.93]:7780 "HELO smtp203.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266786AbUJFFVb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <416380D7.9020306@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:21:27 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, judith@osdl.org Subject: Re: Default cache_hot_time value back to 10ms References: <200410060042.i960gn631637@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20041005205511.7746625f.akpm@osdl.org> <416374D5.50200@yahoo.com.au> <20041005215116.3b0bd028.akpm@osdl.org> <41637BD5.7090001@yahoo.com.au> <20041005220954.0602fba8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041005220954.0602fba8.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 36 Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Any idea when 2.6.9 will be coming out? > > > Before -mm hits 1000 patches, I hope. > > 2.6.8 wasn't really super-stable and our main tool for getting the quality > is to stretch the release times, give us time to shake things out. The > release time is largely driven by perceptions of current stability, bug > report rates, etc. > > A current guess would be -rc4 later this week, 2.6.9 late next week. We'll > see. > > One way of advancing that is to get down and work on bugs in current -linus > tree, yes? > > If this still doesn't seem to be working out and if 2.6.9 isn't as good as > we'd like I'll consider shutting down -mm completely once we hit -rc2 so > people have nothing else to do apart from fix bugs in, and test -linus. > We'll see. > OK thanks for the explanation. Any thoughts about making -rc's into -pre's, and doing real -rc's? It would have caught the NFS bug that made 2.6.8.1, and probably the cd burning problems... Or is Linus' patching finger just too itchy? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/