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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:01:24 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24-mm1
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:34 PST, Andrew Morton said:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/
> 
> Builds, boots, mostly seems to run for limited testing.
> 
> One note - the following commit(s) (and related CPA reworking) broke the NVidia
> binary driver (which is OK, I can fix *that* part).  But can somebody explain
> if this should have seen a trip through the -mm tree before it hit mainstream?
> I didn't see these in 24-rc8-mm1:

well that depends on which -mm you tried; I'm sure the mm kernel of the day had it for a while.
I don't think it's a realistic expectation to delay every bugfix and arch patch until Andrew
gets around to releasing an -mm, not do I see the point of that, what would have been different?
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