Linus Torvalds | 17 Apr 05:29

Linux 2.6.25


It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who 
found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a 
regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as 
reliably before.

That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding 
things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too, 
they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my 
particular worries.

The full changelog from 2.6.24 is 7.5M, with a 12MB compressed patch. Tons 
and tons has changed, but if you've been following the -rc releases, 
you'll already know about the big things. The changes from the last rc 
(-rc9) are fairly small and mostly pretty trivial, and the shortlog is 
appended.

So it's mostly one-liners, with some updates to drivers (net and usb) and 
to networking that are a bit larger (although a number of the driver 
updates are things like just new ID's etc).

For those of you who haven't followed -rc's, and want the more readable 
overview of what has changed since 2.6.24, I'd suggest the usual sites, 
notably http://kernelnewbies.org/.

And a reminder for git users: while the _full_ changelogs are huge and 
unwieldly and you easily lose sight of the big picture from just bring 
overwhelmed by the details, if you're interested in some particular 
subsystem, using "gitk v2.6.24.. <path-limiter>" is a good way to see what 
has changed in that particular area.
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david | 17 Apr 06:22

Re: Linux 2.6.25

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who
> found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a
> regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as
> reliably before.
>
> That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding
> things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too,
> they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my
> particular worries.

Rafael,
   could you post the list of the remaining known regressions in 2.6.25. a 
few days ago there were about 2 dozen left, but there was a flurry of 
activity (patching, identifying some as not regressions, others as being 
fixed, etc) so I've lost track of what's left

David Lang
Rafael J. Wysocki | 17 Apr 20:56
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Re: Linux 2.6.25

On Thursday, 17 of April 2008, david <at> lang.hm wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who
> > found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a
> > regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as
> > reliably before.
> >
> > That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding
> > things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too,
> > they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my
> > particular worries.
> 
> Rafael,
>    could you post the list of the remaining known regressions in 2.6.25. a 
> few days ago there were about 2 dozen left, but there was a flurry of 
> activity (patching, identifying some as not regressions, others as being 
> fixed, etc) so I've lost track of what's left

Yes, I will post that later today.

Thanks,
Rafael
Rafael J. Wysocki | 17 Apr 22:46
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2.6.25: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

As promised, below is the list of reported regressions from 2.6.24 for which
there are no fixes in 2.6.25, AFAICS.

I'm now going to start tracking regressions from 2.6.25, but bug #9832 used
for tracking the regressions from 2.6.24 will stay there, so if you report
a regression from 2.6.24 through the Bugzilla, please make it block that bug.

Listed regressions statistics:

  Date          Total  Pending  Unresolved
  ----------------------------------------
  2008-04-17      193       17          13
  2008-04-13      194       27          22
  2008-04-07      188       29          22
  2008-03-31      177       34          31
  2008-03-27      171       38          30
  2008-03-22      159       35          31
  2008-03-17      148       38          30
  2008-03-16      146       42          35
  2008-03-14      145       45          39
  2008-03-12      143       51          41
  2008-03-11      141       58          43
  2008-03-10      138       66          47
  2008-03-03      115       65          49
  2008-02-25       90       51          39
  2008-02-17       61       45          37

Unresolved regressions
----------------------

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Thomas Bächler | 18 Apr 08:50

Re: 2.6.25: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb:
> As promised, below is the list of reported regressions from 2.6.24 for which
> there are no fixes in 2.6.25, AFAICS.
> 
> I'm now going to start tracking regressions from 2.6.25, but bug #9832 used
> for tracking the regressions from 2.6.24 will stay there, so if you report
> a regression from 2.6.24 through the Bugzilla, please make it block that bug.

Got another regression:

Wakeup from ACPI S3 is broken in 2.6.25, x86_64, last known version is 
2.6.25-rc8git8. My Lenovo Laptop does not wake up from S3. I have no 
time to analyze this further now, but I will try to find out what 
happened later today, will open a bugzilla then.


Gmane