Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 00:12:55 EST


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:50:51 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Temporarily at
> >
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/
> >
> > Will appear later at
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/
> >
> >
> > - Restored git-block.patch: mainly the block unplugging rework. The
> > problematic CFQ updates have been taken out.
> >
> > - Restored the fsaio patches as a consequence.
> >
> > - A huge ACPI update.
> >
> > - A decent number of x86 patches have been temporarily dropped due to their
> > clash against the ACPI update.
> >
> > - A few problems reported against 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 have been fixed.
>
> Now that kevent work has settled down, would you be open to including it
> in -mm?
>

I just haven't had the bandwidth to track what's been happening there
lately. The two main things which need to be done are

- a detailed line-by-line review

- for someone to gain a full understanding of the delta between <these
patches> and <ulrich> and to explain these differences to mortals and to
convince themselves and the rest of us that we're all OK.

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