Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:33:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:33:22 -0500 Received: from tomts19.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.73]:30412 "EHLO tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:33:11 -0500 From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: tomlins@cam.org Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:32:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: Lines: 26 Organization: me User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: <20011216153236.EDB714A8A2@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote: > >> IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed >> a suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and >> nobody has found any major problems. > > Except for loop deadlock, sysvfs oops, and a glut of __devexit > non-compiles. Whilst the sysvfs oops shouldn't affect many, loop > is used by a lot of people, and the __devexit patches would save > us another month of debian sid users who don't bother to read archives. Also there are some O_DIRECT problems. Also Chris Mason has confirmed a opps occuring when finish_unfinished is called when remounting from ro to rw... In my books this makes 2 nasties (loop, opps), 1 pita (__devexit stuff) and 2 that would nice to have working. There are probably others. Ed Tomlinson Ed Tomlinson - 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/