Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932663AbXAaHCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:02:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752196AbXAaHCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:02:32 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:52041 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752183AbXAaHCb (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:02:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:02:37 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mark Lord , Bron Gondwana , Mike Houston , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Daniel Drake , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Vladimir Saveliev , reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, David Chinner , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: How many people are using 2.6.16? Message-ID: <20070131070237.GT3754@stusta.de> 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1712 Lines: 55 On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. Thanks for the clarifications. Regarding the longstanding CIFS/reiserfs/XFS problems, it seems the status is: CIFS: commit cb876f451455b6187a7d69de2c112c45ec4b7f99 Fix up CIFS for "test_clear_page_dirty()" removal queued for 2.6.19.3 applies and compiles against 2.6.16 reiserfs: commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped backport to 2.6.16 required XFS: fix not yet in your tree > Linus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/