Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1

[caszonyi@rdslink.ro]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, it's two weeks since v2.6.18, and as a result I've cut a -rc1 release.
>
> As usual for -rc1 with a lot of pending merges, it's a huge thing with
> tons of changes, and in fact since 2.6.18 took longer than normal due to
> me traveling (and others probably also being on vacations), it's possibly
> even larger than usual.
>
> I think we got updates to pretty much all of the active architectures,
> we've got VM changes (dirty shared page tracking, for example), we've got
> networking, drivers, you name it. Even the shortlog and the diffstats are
> too big to make the kernel mailing list, but even just the summary says
> something:
>
> 4998 total commits
> 6535 files changed, 414890 insertions(+), 233881 deletions(-)
>
> so please give it a good testing, and let's see if there are any
> regressions.

In dmesg:
warning: process `sleep' used the removed sysctl system call
warning: process `alsactl' used the removed sysctl system call
warning: process `nscd' used the removed sysctl system call
warning: process `tail' used the removed sysctl system call

ver_linux says:
 /~ $ ./src/kernel/linux-2.6.19-rc1/scripts/ver_linux
If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version.
Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes.

Linux grinch 2.6.19-rc1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Oct 5 22:53:57 EEST 2006 i686 
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Gnu C                  3.3.4
Gnu make               3.80
binutils               2.15.92.0.2
util-linux             2.12p
mount                  2.12p
module-init-tools      3.1
e2fsprogs              1.35
jfsutils               1.1.11
reiserfsprogs          3.6.18
xfsprogs               2.6.13
quota-tools            3.12.
nfs-utils              1.0.7
Linux C Library        2.3.4
Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.3.4
Linux C++ Library      5.0.6
Procps                 3.2.5
Net-tools              1.60
Kbd                    1.12
Sh-utils               5.2.1

 /~ $ /usr/sbin/alsactl -v
alsactl version 1.0.10


In Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt it says:

---------------------------

What:   sys_sysctl
When:   January 2007
Why:    The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is 
the
        interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
        any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl.  The additional
        maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
        in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.

Who:    Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

---------------------------

I can upgrade my userspace (Slackware 10.1) if necessary ;)

Bye
Calin

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