Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-22 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
Hi; 21 Ara 2007 Cum tarihinde, Linus Torvalds şunları yazmıştı: > Here's to a merry christmas, doing the whole druidic festival around the > tree thing, With -rc6, dmesg shows following Unknown symbols; [...] [ 26.883635] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 [ 26.913123] hci_usb: Unknown symbol hci_sus

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, the code to finding one '\n' is still needed to avoid the > (pathological) case of getting a "\No newline", so scrap that one which > was too aggressive, and use this (simpler) one instead. > > Not that it matters in real life, since nobody

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And here's the git patch to avoid this optimization when there is > context. Actually, the code to finding one '\n' is still needed to avoid the (pathological) case of getting a "\No newline", so scrap that one which was too aggressive, and use t

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:40:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That was a rather long-winded explanation of what happened, mainly because > it was all very unexpected to me, and I had personally mistakenly thought > the git optimization was perfectly valid and actually had to go through > the

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It only happened for a few files that had lots of repeated lines - so that > the diff could literally be done multiple different ways - and in fact, > the file that caused the problems really had a bogus commit that > duplicated *way* too much da

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The tar-ball and the git archive itself is fine, but yes, the diff from > 2.6.23 to 2.6.24-rc6 is bad. It's the "trim_common_tail()" optimization > that has caused way too much pain. Very interesting breakage. The patch was actually "correct" in

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > I think I see the problem, it's lack of context in the diff, No, the problem is that "git diff" is apparently broken by a recent optimization. The diff is simply broken. The tar-ball and the git archive itself is fine, but yes, the diff from 2.6.

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:49:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > > > I think I see the problem, it's lack of context in the diff, > > No, the problem is that "git diff" is apparently broken by a recent > optimization. The diff is simply broken

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:48:05PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file > drivers/video/mbx/reg_bits.h.rej > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22316 (%prep) > I think I see the problem, it's lack of context in the diff, commit ba282daa919f89c

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:41:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The regression list keeps shrinking, so we're still on track for a full > 2.6.24 release in early January. Assuming we don't all overeat during the > holidays and nobody gets any work done. But we all know that the holidays > are

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:41 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The most noticeable part here (both to users and in the diffstat) should > be the libata-acpi fixes by Tejun Heo, which should hopefully take care of > all of the regressions that were caused by teaching SATA about doing the > proper ACP

Linux 2.6.24-rc6

2007-12-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
le_readdir correctly Larry Finger (1): b43: Fix rfkill radio LED Linus Torvalds (3): Revert "make bnx2x select ZLIB_INFLATE" Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cache Linux 2.6.24-rc6 Liu Yu (1): [POWERPC] Fix rounding bug in emulat