Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc7

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Oct 08 2010 - 11:06:09 EST


On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 11:49 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:45:13 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This should be the last -rc, I'm not seeing any reason to keep
> > delaying a real release. There was still more changes to
> > drivers/gpu/drm than I really would have hoped for, but they all look
> > harmless and good. Famous last words.
>
> I have no idea how critical any of this stuff is, but linux-next contain
> the following in it's "current" trees i.e. stuff that is supposed to go
> into 2.6.36. These are from the arm-current, scsi-rc-fixes, net-current,
> wireless-current, kbuild-current, input-current and ide-curent trees
> (contacts cc'd).

The SCSI rc-fixes stuff is critical if you run into the bugs, but the
bugs are fairly rare cases for most people. I'd still like to get them
in, though (and I have another 3 rc fixes candidates going through the
test pipeline).

James


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