Re: Linux 3.19 - and merge window now open

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Linus, On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:41:03 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So it's out there - go and get it. And as a result, the merge window > for 3.20 is obviously also now open. If linux-next is anything to go by, v2.20 could be the smallest release in a long time. see http://neuling.org/linux

Re: Linux 3.19 - and merge window now open

2015-02-08 Thread Sedat Dilek
Hi, some personal notes on this release. Several warnings and call-traces which I saw in Linux-next (upcoming v3.20) turned out to be also issues in v3.19. [1] aio: annotate aio_read_event_ring for sleep patterns [2] tracing: Add condition check to RCU lockdep checks [3] x86/tlb/trace: Do not t

Re: Linux 3.19 - and merge window now open

2015-02-08 Thread Tony Luck
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So it's out there - go and get it. And as a result, the merge window > for 3.20 is obviously also now open. 3.20? How high are we going to count before it's time to consider 4.0? -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Linux 3.19 - and merge window now open

2015-02-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
So nothing all that exciting happened, and while I was tempted a couple of times to do an rc8, there really wasn't any reason for it. Just as an example, Sasha Levin used KASan and found an interesting bug in paravirtualized spinlocks, but realistically it's been around forever, and it's not even