Ok, it's finally there.
2.6.14 was delayed twice due to some last-minute bug-reports, some of
which ended up being false alarms (hey, I should be happy, but it was a
bit frustrating)
But hey, the delays - even when perhaps unnecessary - got us to look at
the code and fix some other bugs instead. So it's all good.
So special thanks go to Oleg Nesterov and Roland McGrath for doing some
code inspection and fixing and just making the otherwise frustrating wait
for bug resolution more productive ;^p.
Let's try the 2-week merge window thing again, I think it worked pretty
well despite the delays, and hopefully it will work even better this time
around.
The actual changes from 2.6.14-rc5 are a number of mostly one-liners, with
the ShortLog appended (full log from 2.6.13 on the normal sites together
with the release itself). The only slightly bigger ones (ie more than a
handful of lines) is a kernel parameter doc update, and the PIIX4 PCI
quirk printouts, and the cleanups/fixes for the posix cpu timers.
(In fact, according to diffstat, about half the diff is that one
documentation update, and most of that is whitespace cleanups)
Linus
Yeah, I know I said -rc4 was going to be the last one, but as some of you
may have noticed from the discussions, a day before I was planning on
releasing 2.6.14 we found a couple of bugs (nasty RCU callback delays,
swiotlb, etc). The fixes for those weren't all that complicated, but the
problems were subtle enough that I wanted to get them fixed and have
another -rc before final release.
So here it is. There's a number of other small random fixes in there too.
Linus
Here's the final -rc before a 2.6.14 release.
In the diffstat, most of the changes are one-liners, with the main
exceptions being some sparc64 work (fix user-space corruption due to FP
save/restore) and the new Megaraid SAS driver. There's some networking
fixes, and a couple of driver updates (scsi: aacraid, net: cassini, and
watchdog: pcwd_pci).
Along with a x86-64 suspend/resume page table corruption and some new
defconfig files for ARM, that rounds out the bigger chunks.
The shortlog (appended) should be a pretty good idea of the rest.
Linus
Ok, this may or may not be the last -rc before 2.6.14, but the point is
that we're getting closer.
The diffstat (not included here) tells the story: most of the changes are
just a couple of lines, with a few outliers: a new "cassini" network
driver, the mpt sas driver, some ip-conntrac work, and net/llc cleanups.
Oh, and sparc updates and some ppc tlb and smu work.
I think the shortlog is actually pretty descriptive, so without further
ado, here it is.
Linus
Ahoy landlubbers!
Here be t' Linux-2.6.14-rc2 release.
Not a whole lot o' excitement, ye scurvy dogs, but it has t' ALSA, LSM,
audit and watchdog merges that be missed from -rc1, and a merge series
with Andrew. But on t' whole pretty reasonable - you can see t' details in
the shortlog (appended).
Arrr!
Linus
Ok, it's been two weeks (actually, two weeks and one day) since 2.6.13,
and that means that the merge window is closed. I've released a
2.6.14-rc1, and we're now all supposed to help just clean up and fix
everything, and aim for a really solid 2.6.14 release.
Both the diffstat and the shortlog are so big that I can't post them on
the kernel mailing list without getting the email killed by the size
restrictions, so there's not a lot to say.
alpha, arm, x86, x86-64, ppc, ia64, mips, sparc, um.. Pretty much every
architecture got some updates. And an absolutely _huge_ ACPI diff, largely
because of some re-indentation.
drm, watchdog, hwmon, i2c, infiniband, input layer, md, dvb, v4l, network,
pci, pcmcia, scsi, usb and sound driver updates. People may appreciate
that the most common wireless network drivers got merged - centrino
support is now in the standard kernel.
On the filesystem level, FUSE got merged, and ntfs and xfs got updated. In
the core VFS layer, the "struct files" thing is now handled with RCU and
has less expensive locking.
And networking changes.
In other words, a lot of stuff all over the place. Be nice now, and follow
the rules: put away the new toys, and instead work on making sure the
stuff that got merged is all solid. Ok?
Anybody with git can do the shortlog with
git-rev-list --no-merges --pretty=short v2.6.14-rc1 ^v2.6.13 |
git-shortlog | less -S
which is actually pretty informative.
Linus
Tomasz Torcz
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