Hi Buchan,

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:45:53 +0200
Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| >  Yes, unfortunally #21345 wasn't fixed yet. One reason is that we (the
| > kernel team) are still discussing its introduction into 2006.0 because it
| > may brake things (it's not totally clear to me which things, but well..);
| > other important reason is that I had important security fixes to work on.
| >
| >  The really bad news is that I think it won't be possible to fix #21345
| > for -20mdk because I don't want to hold this kernel for more than 2 weeks.
| > I'll update the ticket with this info soon.
| 
| 
| I would be a lot more willing to test this kernel on my amd64 box if it 
| *might* fix #21345 ...

 I see.

| AFAICS, this aspect should *really* not be a big impact, and it is easier to 
| test (as it only impacts installation, upgrading, and installation/upgrading 
| of other packages).

 The main problem here is that, in order to fix #21345, we'll need
(in the better case) yet another week of testing. But I don't want to
hold this kernel for too long, becase important fixes have been queued
due to -19mdk community release.

 That's bad, I know, but we'll have to wait for -21mdk and I'll try
to introduce the fix in -21uc1mdk.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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