Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752028AbWLXOtf (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:49:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752037AbWLXOtf (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:49:35 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60129 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752028AbWLXOte (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:49:34 -0500 Message-ID: <458E937B.9050603@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:49:31 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alessandro Suardi CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc2 References: <5a4c581d0612240558t1a693049l2c2f311d63681b40@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5a4c581d0612240558t1a693049l2c2f311d63681b40@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2060 Lines: 58 Alessandro Suardi wrote: > On 12/24/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> Ok, >> it's a couple of days delayed, because we've been trying to figure out >> what is up with the rtorrent hash failures since 2.6.18.3. I don't think >> we've made any progress, but we've cleaned up a number of suspects in the >> meantime. >> >> It's a bit sad, if only because I was really hoping to make 2.6.20 an >> easy >> release, and held back on merging some stuff during the merge window for >> that reason. And now we're battling something that was introduced much >> earlier.. >> >> Now, practically speaking this isn't likely to affect a lot of people, >> but >> it's still a worrisome problem, and we've had "top people" looking at it. >> And they'll continue, but xmas is coming. >> >> In the meantime, we'll continue with the stabilization, and this mainly >> does some driver updates (usb, sound, dri, pci hotplug) and ACPI updates >> (much of the latter syntactic cleanups). And arm and powerpc updates. >> >> Shortlog appended. >> >> For developers: if you sent me a patch, and I didn't apply it, it was >> probably just missed because I concentrated on other issues. So pls >> re-send.. Unless I explicitly told you that I'm not going to pull it due >> to the merge window being over, of course ;) >> >> Linus > > [shortlog snipped] > > As already reported multiple times, including at -rc1 time... > > still need this libata-sff.c patch: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116343564202844&q=raw > > to have my root device detected, ata_piix probe would otherwise > fail as described in this thread: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.0/0690.html I've got a patch that should work for those cases. Alan's patch contained some bugs. Jeff - 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/