linux 2.6.0 freigegeben

[spunz]

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...hangeLog-2.6.0

"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