Re: [stable] [00/29] 2.6.32.6 stable review

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Jan 24 2010 - 11:35:29 EST


On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:11:45 -0800 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.32.6 release.
> > There are 29 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> > this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
> > us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
> > to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Monday, January 24, 00:00:00 UTC.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> 2.6.32.6 will still contain the regression described in (for example)
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15117
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15005
>
> It's fixed with the below revert which has been in -mm (and only in
> -mm) for ten days.
>
> I don't what's going on - perhaps we're waiting for Thomas, and he's
> otherwise engaged. There's a fix in the lkml thread "Re: [RFC PATCH
> 0/4] clockevents: fix clockevent_devices list corruption after cpu
> hotplug" to which Thomas replied
>
> I just applied your patch, but kept the cpuweight check. This
> is the least intrusive solution for now. The logic needs an
> overhaul, but thats neither rc4 nor stable material"

Just sent the pull request for it. Sorry for the delay. The patch
needs to go into 32.6 as well.

Thanks,

tglx
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