Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422768AbWJFRtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:49:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751420AbWJFRtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:49:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.rdslink.ro ([193.231.236.97]:59801 "EHLO smtp.rdslink.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbWJFRtR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:49:17 -0400 X-Mail-Scanner: Scanned by qSheff 1.0 (http://www.enderunix.org/qsheff/) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:49:07 +0300 (EEST) From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro X-X-Sender: sony@grinch.ro Reply-To: Calin Szonyi To: ebiederm@xmission.com cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3007 Lines: 93 On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, it's two weeks since v2.6.18, and as a result I've cut a -rc1 release. > > As usual for -rc1 with a lot of pending merges, it's a huge thing with > tons of changes, and in fact since 2.6.18 took longer than normal due to > me traveling (and others probably also being on vacations), it's possibly > even larger than usual. > > I think we got updates to pretty much all of the active architectures, > we've got VM changes (dirty shared page tracking, for example), we've got > networking, drivers, you name it. Even the shortlog and the diffstats are > too big to make the kernel mailing list, but even just the summary says > something: > > 4998 total commits > 6535 files changed, 414890 insertions(+), 233881 deletions(-) > > so please give it a good testing, and let's see if there are any > regressions. > In dmesg: warning: process `sleep' used the removed sysctl system call warning: process `alsactl' used the removed sysctl system call warning: process `nscd' used the removed sysctl system call warning: process `tail' used the removed sysctl system call ver_linux says: /~ $ ./src/kernel/linux-2.6.19-rc1/scripts/ver_linux If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version. Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes. Linux grinch 2.6.19-rc1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Oct 5 22:53:57 EEST 2006 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Gnu C 3.3.4 Gnu make 3.80 binutils 2.15.92.0.2 util-linux 2.12p mount 2.12p module-init-tools 3.1 e2fsprogs 1.35 jfsutils 1.1.11 reiserfsprogs 3.6.18 xfsprogs 2.6.13 quota-tools 3.12. nfs-utils 1.0.7 Linux C Library 2.3.4 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.4 Linux C++ Library 5.0.6 Procps 3.2.5 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.12 Sh-utils 5.2.1 /~ $ /usr/sbin/alsactl -v alsactl version 1.0.10 In Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt it says: --------------------------- What: sys_sysctl When: January 2007 Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface. Who: Eric Biederman --------------------------- I can upgrade my userspace (Slackware 10.1) if necessary ;) Bye Calin -- "frate, trezeste-te, aici nu-i razboiul stelelor" Radu R. pe offtopic at lug.ro - 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/