Re: [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review

From: Grant Coady
Date: Sat Aug 14 2010 - 04:02:33 EST


On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:47:29 -0700, you wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:12:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Machine is running, but there's a lot of these in the dmesg:
>> >
>> > WARNING: at include/linux/security.h:1826 acct_stack_growth+0xe7/0xf0()
>>
>> That would seem to be because of the lack of commit 05fa199d45c in
>> 2.6.27. It got marked for stable, but probably never went so far back
>> as 2.6.27.
>
>Yup, I didn't include it there. Grant, if you add that, does the
>warning go away?

I'm sorry, no idea at all how to cherry pick that, I don't know git :(

Google brings up this thread but not that commit, point me at it and
I'll try it.

Grant.

>
>> That said, I do wonder if it is worth it maintaining a 2.6.27 that the
>> maintainer can't even boot on his machines any more.
>
>Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder about it as well. I think it's expected
>lifespan is very near to the end.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
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