Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754097AbXJBOo5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:44:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752529AbXJBOou (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:44:50 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:52343 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752416AbXJBOou (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:44:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18178.22876.980673.839094@stoffel.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:44:44 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.. In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1017 Lines: 23 Linus> I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate Linus> doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had Linus> in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really Linus> couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some Linus> really stupid brown-paper-bag thing. Linus> So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to Linus> make this series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few Linus> days. So please do give it a last good testing, and holler Linus> about any issues you find! Just to let people know, I was running 2.6.23-rc for over 53 days without any issues. Mix of SCSI, Sata, tape drives, disks, MD, LVM, SMP, etc. I suspect we've got a pretty darn stable release coming out soon. John - 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/