David Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:30:43PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> At least these three mods which I did back in September to get Fedora 8
>> / 2.6.23 into shape on 4k stacks, and a bugfix, are still not pushed to
>> kernel.org, and are missing in 2.6.24...
>>
>> Is there any reason for the holdup? Makes me wonder what else isn't
>> pushed...
>
> The holdup is that we drew a line in the sand for the 2.6.24 before
> 2.6.23 was released. We did this because of the massive amount of invasive
> change we already had queued up for 2.6.24. All those mods that got
> held up will be pushed into 2.6.25 release.
>
> Given the problems with the readdir changes (which still isn't 100% right
> given we've had at least one bug report of a crash in the readdir code
> post 2.6.24 release), we couldn't have handled much more change in that
> release.....
Ok, as long as you guys know what's up :)
I just spent the evening sorting out why Fedora 9 was blowing up on
install, when Fedora 8 was working so well... :(
-Eric
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