[RFC] Moving Intrepid to 2.6.27 kernel

[Jeff Schroeder]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:59 AM,  <ubuntu-devel-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: [RFC] Moving Intrepid to 2.6.27 kernel
>
> 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.

Well I'd kind of assumed that you guys will be basing the final kernel
off of a stable
kernel.org release and not a -rcX. That would infer that the above
patch will be pulled in :)

>> > 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?

No clue but Ben is likely already on top of it.

> --
>  - mdz

Is there anyway to add in a whitelist of people who post constructive
comments and
don't have the time to become full on core-devs? The moderation is
really annoying
and I'm not posting spam to the lists. Can you talk to the other
Canonical-ers about this?

Thank you

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