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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:12:35 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc6
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clearly there's some small risk factor and youLinus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, we're getting closer, although the 2.6.16 release certainly seems to 
> drag out more than it should have.
> 
> Some of the worrisome bootup problems seem to have been resolved to a 
> stupid build-time race, where we just generated an empty version string. 
> Oops. 
> 
> The diffstat shows that the largest changes here are the ia64 defconfig 
> updates, much of the rest really is pretty small, but all over the map. 
> Some ocfs2 and 9pfs fixes and updates, and various driver and networking 
> fixes.
> 
> The ShortLog (appended) gives a pretty good picture of it,
> 
> 		Linus

I don't see the bttv fix from Duncan Sands. I realize that similar 
mistakes are in other drivers, but bttv is popular and would benefit 
from getting a fix which works, and several posters have confirmed that 
it really does.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

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