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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:14:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802102214.08860.gene.heskett@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802101603240.2920@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Ok, it's a bloody large -rc (as was 24-rc1, for that matter), probably
>because the 2.6.24 release cycle dragged out, so people had a lot of
>things pending.
>
>The full diff is something like 11MB and 1.4M lines of diffs, with the
>bulk of the stuff being in architecture updates and drivers.
>
>Just to have some fun, I did trivial statistics, and of the 1.4M lines of
>diffs, about 38% - 530k lines - were in architecture files (400k+ lines of
>diffs in arch/, 100k+ lines of diffs in include/asm-*), and another big
>chunk is in drivers (including sound) at about 44% - 610k lines - of
>changes.
>
>The rest comes in much smaller, but still noticeable is networking (8% -
>110k lines), with filesystems at 4%, and documentation at about 2%. The
>remaining crumbles being spread out mostly over block layer, crypto,
>kernel core, and security layer updates (ie SElinux and smack).
>
>[ Just to make it more obvious how driver and architecture-dominated the
> kernel changelogs are: just the network driver changes were 200kloc, and
> even just infiniband - which came way behind not just networking
> drivers, but also DVB, SCSI, char and ide - generated more lines of code
> changed than the "core" kernel code under the kernel/ subdirectory.
>
> And that's despite the fact that the "core" code was actually under a
> fairly active merge cycle, with a lot of namespace- and scheduling-
> related stuff. ]
>
>Now, some of that is files moving about and other reorganizations (SH and
>to a lesser degree sparc starting to merge 32-bit and 64-bit
>architectures), but most of it really is just the normal flood of changes
>and new driver or platform support.
>
>The full shortlog is half a meg in size (and the diffstat is even bigger),
>so I won't be including that here, but some things that may be worth
>pointing out not because they are big in line sizes, but because they have
>potential to be noticed by more people:
>
> - the intel graphics driver is starting to do suspend/resume natively
> (ie even without X support), which is a welcome sign of the times and
> may help some people. It helped on my laptop.
>
> - Other suspend/resume changes in device access ordering etc, and the
> usual ACPI changes means that we really want reports from people about
> this all even if you don't have intel graphics.
>
> - Lots of cleanups from the x86 merge (making more and more use of common
> files), but also the big page attribute stuff is in and caused a fair
> amount of churn, and while most of the issues should have been very
> obvious and all got fixed, this is definitely one of those things that
> we want a lot of very wide testing of to make sure nothing regressed.
>
> - fair number of changes to things like the legacy IDE drivers too, and a
> totally new driver for the very common PCIE version of the Intel e1000
> network card etc.
>
> - .. and I've probably totally forgotten about tons of other stuff I
> should have mentioned, but the point is that not only do we have lots
> of new core, we do have a fair amout of changes to basic stuff that can
> actually affect perfectly bog-standard hardware setups.
>
>So give it all a good testing.
I just did, and while non-x seems stable, the latest nvidia driver, about a
week old, will not build a valid kernel module, so X bails out with a failed
to load it, even though its sitting
in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video with exactly the same length
as the one built for 2.6.24. The nvidia-installer log recommends doing
a 'make prepare' which I did, but nvidia still errors out during the module
build. So obviously I am back to 2.6.24, and my next stop is the nvidia web
site to see if they have a fix.
Other than that, it feels good.
> Linus
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Cheers, Gene
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-11 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-11 0:44 Linus Torvalds
2008-02-11 1:36 ` Sergio Luis
2008-02-11 1:47 ` Linux 2.6.25-rc1 , syntax error near unexpected token `;' Mr. James W. Laferriere
2008-02-11 7:02 ` Ray Lee
2008-02-11 13:29 ` [patch] " Oleg Verych
2008-02-11 13:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-12 3:37 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2008-02-11 3:14 ` Gene Heskett [this message]
2008-02-11 7:39 ` Linux 2.6.25-rc1 Brice Goglin
2008-02-11 15:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-11 11:19 ` parisc - error: 'VMALLOC_START' undeclared Domenico Andreoli
2008-02-11 12:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-11 13:31 ` Linux 2.6.25-rc1 Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-11 16:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-02-11 16:47 ` [PATCH] kbuild: fix make V=1 Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-11 23:38 ` Oleg Verych
2008-02-12 8:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-12 9:25 ` Oleg Verych
2008-02-12 15:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-02-12 15:49 ` Oleg Verych
2008-02-12 16:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-02-12 16:42 ` Oleg Verych
2008-02-12 20:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-11 21:46 ` Linux 2.6.25-rc1 Torsten Kaiser
2008-02-11 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-11 22:48 ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-13 19:17 ` Torsten Kaiser
2008-02-12 8:18 ` [ata crash] " Ingo Molnar
2008-02-12 15:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-13 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-13 9:20 ` [libata-dev #upstream-fixes] pata_legacy: don't call ata_host_detach() after initialization failure Tejun Heo
2008-02-13 9:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-15 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-13 9:51 ` [ata crash] Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1 Tejun Heo
2008-02-21 2:33 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-21 7:12 ` Ingo Molnar
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