Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756560AbXJBWHS (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754640AbXJBWHF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:07:05 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:37252 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754593AbXJBWHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:07:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4702C276.3080400@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:13:10 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stoffel CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.. References: <18178.22876.980673.839094@stoffel.org> In-Reply-To: <18178.22876.980673.839094@stoffel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1509 Lines: 31 John Stoffel wrote: > 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. > I've been running rc8-git3 since it came out, and while I've built git-5 and will build rc9, I probably will continue testing until I find a bug or have to boot for some other reason. Running really well, even with a lot of kvm stuff going on, kernel builds for other machines, etc. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/