Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932435AbXAaCkQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:40:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932436AbXAaCkQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:40:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:34330 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932435AbXAaCkP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:40:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:36:48 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Mark Lord cc: Adrian Bunk , Bron Gondwana , Mike Houston , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel Subject: Re: How many people are using 2.6.16? In-Reply-To: <45BFF1F4.3060401@rtr.ca> Message-ID: References: <45BE5948.6060403@redhat.com> <20070129160448.65fc63f3.mikeserv@bmts.com> <20070129221300.GC19422@brong.net> <20070130203933.GJ3754@stusta.de> <45BFF1F4.3060401@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 24 On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, > exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. > > If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists in all > kernels since somewhere back in the 2.4.xx days. The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity checkingwe did actually seem to fix a long-standing CIFS corruption (and apparently reisertfs/XFS problems too). But the *common* case was actually introduced with 2.6.19, and 2.6.16 wouldn't be affected. Linus - 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/