Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753102AbXJBDmA (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750950AbXJBDlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:41:52 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:43253 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750920AbXJBDlv (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:41:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:41:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.. Message-ID: 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: 1790 Lines: 37 I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing. So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to make this series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few days. So please do give it a last good testing, and holler about any issues you find! This is also a good time to warn about the fact that we're doing the x86 merge very soon (as in the next day or two) after 2.6.23 is out, so if you have pending patches for the next series that touch arch/i386 or x86-64, you should get in touch with Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar, who are the keepers of the merge scripts, and will help you prepare.. Doing it as early as possible in the 2.6.24-rc4 series (basically I'll do it first thing) will mean that we'll have the maximum amount of time to sort out any issues, and the thing is, Thomas and Ingo already have a tree ready to go, so people can check their work against that, and don't need to think that they have to do any fixups after it his *my* tree. It would be much better if everybody was just ready for it, and not taken by surprise. In other words, people who know they may be affected and would want to prepare can look at (for example) git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86 and generally get ready for the switch-over. 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/