[RFC] Moving Intrepid to 2.6.27 kernel

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:47:46AM -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:00 AM,  <ubuntu-devel-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > I was in meetings all week and didn't see this until now.  Mario has raised
> > a concern in this thread which I think needs to be addressed.  I also have
> > the following questions:
> 
> Mario's concern is bunk with commit
> 7946612de2087e163308e26034286fc2dc9dacf1 fyi.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7946612de2087e163308e26034286fc2dc9dacf1

I assume you mean that his concern is in fact valid, but will be addressed
when we bring this patch into our 2.6.27 tree.  Thanks for confirming this.

> > What are the known regressions from 2.6.26 to 2.6.27?
> 
> Most of the current regressions are here:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/23/105
> 
> But the majority of them are already fixed and here is the metabug:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11167

Thank you for these links.  Have the regressions found in the testing Ben
mentioned been reported through this same mechanism?

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 - mdz