Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753632AbXAAN2r (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jan 2007 08:28:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755198AbXAAN2r (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jan 2007 08:28:47 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]:22331 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753632AbXAAN2q (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jan 2007 08:28:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aGaVhr1xDwtosHEdfmVcf9xdO2tbXqavOAL4RGU4zUdyqnn2I3ubwqJn4Sikn/yzN2KTPeZmUl03Nw54ROPblL3DVZnhy1PakSEyC6+gqSs5TfWXOaO+1x71c1yjYyD8aQSCa1xdpile3HX9A281zbIpR80vVS+eLI2jRiV+qgc= Message-ID: <5a4c581d0701010528y3ba05247nc39f2ef096f84afa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 14:28:46 +0100 From: "Alessandro Suardi" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released) Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1863 Lines: 48 On 1/1/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In order to not get in trouble with MADR ("Mothers Against Drunk > Releases") I decided to cut the 2.6.20-rc3 release early rather than wait > for midnight, because it's bound to be new years _somewhere_ out there. So > here's to a happy 2007 for everybody. > > The big thing at least for me personally is that nasty shared mmap > corruption fix, but there's a number of other changes in here, many of > them just documentation (and some media and network drivers). Shortlog and > diffstat appended.. > > The git trees have been updated, and the tar-tree and patches seem to have > finisged crawling out my poor DSL connection too. > > As usual, mirroring might take a while, although the delay has not been > all that horrible lately, so it's probably going to be up-to-date by the > time the hangovers are mostly gone. > > At which point the first thing on any self-respecting geek's mind should > obviously be: "is there a new kernel release for me to try?" > > Right? Right ! And this one is still broken in -rc3: Subject : kernel panics on boot (libata-sff) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/3/99 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/153 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/33 Submitter : Alessandro Suardi Caused-By : Alan Cox commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f Handled-By : Alan Cox Status : people are working on a fix Happy 2007 everyone, --alessandro "...when I get it, I _get_ it" (Lara Eidemiller) - 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/