Re: [LTP] Linux 2.6.25-rc7

[Subrata M. <su...@li...>]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 07:55 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Subrata Modak (su...@li...):
> > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 19:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > So this hopefully continues closing various regressions, and most of the 
> > > changes are pretty small (ie diffstat shows a lot of oneliners). The 
> > > biggest patches are the trivial powerpc defconfig updates which show up 
> > > pretty clearly in the dirstat:
> > > 
> > > 	  38.7% arch/powerpc/configs/
> > > 	  39.6% arch/powerpc/
> > > 	  42.9% arch/
> > > 	   2.4% drivers/ata/
> > > 	   7.6% drivers/block/
> > > 	   2.3% drivers/char/
> > > 	   2.0% drivers/message/fusion/
> > > 	   2.0% drivers/mmc/core/
> > > 	   4.1% drivers/net/
> > > 	   7.2% drivers/video/
> > > 	  38.0% drivers/
> > > 	   3.0% fs/hppfs/
> > > 	   7.8% fs/
> > > 	   2.8% kernel/
> > > 	   2.0% net/
> > > 
> > > ie if it weren't for those, the arch/ updates would hardly show up at all. 
> > > In the drivers, the two "big" changes are also totally trivial: 
> > > drivers/block/ shows up because of the ps2esdi driver removal (it's been 
> > > marked BROKEN for years), and drivers/video/ shows up because of a new 
> > > metronomefb.c driver for the E-Ink Metronome controller.
> > > 
> > > Apart from those, most of the changes really are fairly small and spread 
> > > out. The scheduler got some tweaking, the memstick driver got some TLC, 
> > > and cifs and reiserfs had some fixes.
> > > 
> > > The shortlog has more details, but it boils down to some reverts, some 
> > > docbook fixes, some sparse annotation fixups, a number of trivial patches, 
> > > and a healthy sprinkling of small fixups.
> > > 
> > > Give it a good testing, because we're hopefully now well on our way 
> > > towards that eventual real 2.6.25 release!
> > > 
> > > 		Linus
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > Adrian Bunk (4):
> > >       The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being
> > >       make selinux_parse_opts_str() static
> > >       V4L/DVB (7251): VIDEO_VIVI must depend on VIDEO_DEV
> > >       V4L/DVB (7328): usb/opera1.c: fix a memory leak
> > ....................................
> > .....................................
> > > Samuel Thibault (1):
> > >       Input: add keyboard notifier documentation
> > > 
> > > Serge Hallyn (1):
> > >       file capabilities: remove cap_task_kill()
> > 
> > Serge,
> > 
> > Do we also have any corresponding updates for the LTP test case that you
> > added few days back ?
> 
> I'm drawing a blank...  I *think* you're talking about the patch to
> the file capabilities testcases.  I never merged the signaling ones

Oh Yes. I was talking exactly about that (LTP File Caps Test Case
update).

> upstream, so no update needed.

Oh Cool. That should be fine.

Thanks--
Subrata
> 
> thanks,
> -serge