[Tfug] [Fwd: Linux 2.6.0]

Thu Dec 18 01:09:40 MST 2003

Just got the info from Slashdot, most major mirrors are going to take a
pounding next couple of days.  As Linus said, they still have some bugs to
work out, but he didn't see that as detrimental to the release.  But
everything that I've heard from slashdot and other users has been that the
v2.6 test release is absolutely great.  Have fun gentlemen!!

Joshua Schlotterer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry McGregor" <micros at osef.org>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:53 PM
Subject: [Tfug] [Fwd: Linux 2.6.0]

> -----Forwarded Message-----
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>
> > To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> > Subject: Linux 2.6.0
> > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:14:06 -0800
> >
> >
> > "The beaver is out of detox"
> > - Anon
> >
> > This should not be a big surprise to anybody on the list any more, since
> > we've been building up to it for a long time now, and for the last few
> > weeks I haven't accepted any patches except for what amounts to fairly
> > obvious one-liners.
> >
> > Anyway, 2.6.0 is out there now, and the patch from -test11 is a swelte
> > 11kB in size. It's not the totally empty patch I was hoping for, but
> > judging by the bugs I worked on personally, things are looking pretty
> > good.
> >
> > To give you an example, one of the nastier bugs that we chased for the
> > last five weeks was a bug that could only be reproduced reliably on a
> > 16- or 32-way system, and only when the system had flaky disks. Putting
in
> > known-good disks made the problem disappear. Similarly, compiling the
> > kernel with another compiler made the problem disappear.
> >
> > It turned out to be a really subtle bug wrt SMP ordering and stack
> > allocation, and lots of thanks to Ram Pai for gathering all the
> > information that eventually led to it being fixed. The fix was a
one-liner
> > and a big comment - but my point is that the quality of bugs has been
> > pretty high lately, and we feel that we're in pretty good shape.
> >
> > Andrew has written up some caveats and pointers to information about
2.4.x
> > vs 2.6.x changes, and I'll let him post that. Some known issues were not
> > considered to be release-critical and a number of them have pending
fixes
> > in the -mm queue. Generally they just didn't have the kind of
verification
> > yet where I was willing to take them in order to make sure a fair 2.6.0
> > release.
> >
> > NOTE! I'll continue to keep track of the 2.6 BK tree until we're closer
to
> > the time when we literally split it for 2.7.x, because both Andrew and I
> > are pretty comfortable with our respective toolchains. But Andrew is the
> > stable tree maintainer, so everything should be approved by him at this
> > point. Think of the -mm tree as the staging area, and mine as a release
> > tree. We'll work together, but Andrew is boss.
> >
> > (BK merging will have to go through some approval format, we'll see how
> > that works out exactly).
> >
> > Linus
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Summary of changes from v2.6.0-test11 to v2.6.0
> > ============================================
> >
> > Alan Stern:
> >   o USB: fix bug not setting device state following usb_device_reset()
> >
> > Andrey Borzenkov:
> >   o USB: prevent catch-all USB aliases in modules.alias
> >
> > Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> >   o [IPV6]: Fix TCP socket leak
> >
> > David Brownell:
> >   o USB: fix remove device after set_configuration
> >
> > David S. Miller:
> >   o [NETFILTER]: In conntrack, do not fragment TSO packets by accident
> >   o [PKT_SCHED]: Do not dereference the special pointer value
'HTB_DIRECT'
> >
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> >   o USB: register usb-serial ports in the proper place in sysfs
> >   o USB: fix race with hub devices disconnecting while stuff is still
> >     happening to them
> >   o USB: fix bug for multiple opens on ttyUSB devices
> >   o kobject: fix bug where a parent could be deleted before a child
> >     device
> >
> > Harald Welte:
> >   o [NETFILTER]: Sanitize ip_ct_tcp_timeout_close_wait value, from 2.4.x
> >
> > Herbert Xu:
> >   o USB: Fix connect/disconnect race
> >
> > Hideaki Yoshifuji:
> >   o [IPV6]: Fix ipv4 mapped address calculation in udpv6_sendmsg()
> >
> > Hirofumi Ogawa:
> >   o Missing initialization of /proc/net/tcp seq_file
> >
> > Ingo Molnar:
> >   o Fix lost wakeups problem
> >   o Fix /proc access to dead thread group list oops
> >
> > James McMechan:
> >   o tmpfs oops fix
> >
> > Jean Delvare:
> >   o I2C: fix i2c_smbus_write_byte() for i2c-nforce2
> >
> > Jeff Garzik:
> >   o fix use-after-free in libata
> >   o fix oops on unload in pcnet32
> >   o remove manual driver poisoning of net_device
> >   o wireless airo oops fix
> >
> > Jens Axboe:
> >   o fix broken x86_64 rdtscll
> >   o scsi_ioctl memcpy'ing user address
> >   o no bio unmap on cdb copy failure
> >   o Fix IDE bus reset and DMA disable when reading blank DVD-R
> >   o CDROM_SEND_PACKET bug
> >
> > Jes Sorensen:
> >   o qla1280 crash fix in error handling
> >
> > Julian Anastasov:
> >   o [BRIDGE]: Provide correct TOS value to IPv4 routing
> >
> > Linus Torvalds:
> >   o Fix x86 kernel page fault error codes
> >   o Fix ide-scsi.c uninitialized variable
> >   o Fix the PROT_EXEC breakage on anonymous mmap
> >   o Fix subtle bug in "finish_wait()", which can cause kernel stack
> >     corruption on SMP because of another CPU still accessing a
> >     waitqueue even after it was de-allocated.
> >   o More subtle SMP bugs in prepare_to_wait()/finish_wait()
> >   o Fix thread group leader zombie leak
> >
> > Martin Devera:
> >   o [PKT_SCHED]: In HTB, filters must be destroyed before the classes
> >
> > Matthew Dharm:
> >   o USB storage: fix for jumpshot and datafab devices
> >
> > Neil Brown:
> >   o Fix possible bio corruption with RAID5
> >
> > Oliver Neukum:
> >   o USB: fix sleping in interrupt bug in auerswald driver
> >   o USB: fix race with signal delivery in usbfs
> >
> > Pavlin Radoslavov:
> >   o [RTNETLINK]: Add RTPROT_XORP
> >
> > René Scharfe:
> >   o HPFS: missing lock_kernel() in hpfs_readdir()
> >
> > Tom Rini:
> >   o USB: mark the scanner driver as obsolete
> >
> > Ulrich Drepper:
> >   o Fix 'noexec' behaviour
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