[Kernel-janitors] Fw: Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze

Well, I got bunches of KJ patches merged in -test6 and -test7,
and I still have some queued, but they are on hold for now,
according to Linus....

~Randy
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Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:47:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze



The -test7 kernel is out there now - I'm not reaching bkbits.net, but it's 
on the other BK sites, and the tar-ball and patches are uploading to 
kernel.org right now.

The biggest part of the test7 patches are:
 - s390 update
 - DVB update
 - NFS (v4 in particular) update
 - cpufreq updates
 - ACPI update

A lot of the rest are basically a lot of small onelines, along with fairly
minor updates (networking fixes for shared skb's for remaining cases,
janitorials, cleanups etc).

The more interesting thing is that I and Andrew are trying to calm down 
development, and I do _not_ want to see patches that don't fix a real and 
clear bug. In other words, the "cleanup and janitorial" stuff is on hold, 
and -test8 and then -test9 should be for _stability_ fixes only.

In other words, this should calm things down so that by the end of October
we can look at the state of 2.6.0 without having a lot of noise from "not
strictly necessary" stuff.

                        Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.6.0-test6 to v2.6.0-test7
============================================

  o janitor: fix cciss for !CONFIG_PROC_FS
  o janitor: Audit av7110_ir_init
  o janitor: opl3sa2 cleanups/checker
  o janitor: cleanup includes (sound/oss)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (drivers/char)
  o janitor: fix toshiba for !CONFIG_PROC_FS
  o janitor: saa7146_register_extension failure report back its
  o janitor: convert strtok to strsep (sound/oss)
  o janitor: init_nfsd() error handling
  o janitor: cleanup includes (mtd)
  o janitor: cpqarray for !CONFIG_PROC_FS
  o janitor: saa7146_register_extension failure report (ttpci)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (media/video)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (oss/dmasound)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (wireless/arlan)
  o janitor: Audit copy_to_user (ttusb)
  o janitor: fix for not CONFIG_PROC_FS
  o janitor: cleanup includes (drivers/media)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (cdrom)
  o janitor: saa7146_register_extension (ci) failure report
  o janitor: cleanup includes (telephony)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (drivers/video)
  o janitor: cleanup includes (acpi)
  o [NET]: Remove verify_area() in net/wan/sbni (from
    domen@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
  o janitor: schedule_timeout sets curr->state (arm)
  o [NET]: schedule_timeout() sets curr_state, from Alexey Dobriyan
    <adobriyan@xxxxxxx>
  o [COSA]: schedule_timeout() sets curr_state, from Alexey Dobriyan
    <adobriyan@xxxxxxx>
  o [ATM]: schedule_timeout() sets curr_state, from Alexey Dobriyan
    <adobriyan@xxxxxxx>