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Table Of Contents
| 1. | 12 Mar 2005 - 24 Mar 2005 | (58 posts) | Linux 2.6.11-mm3 Released; Some Mouse Anomalies |
| 2. | 18 Mar 2005 - 24 Mar 2005 | (5 posts) | Linux 2.4.30-rc1 Released |
| 3. | 21 Mar 2005 - 24 Mar 2005 | (72 posts) | Linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 Released |
| 4. | 22 Mar 2005 - 27 Mar 2005 | (25 posts) | SquashFS Support For ./ And ../ |
| 5. | 24 Mar 2005 - 28 Mar 2005 | (44 posts) | Linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 Released; Status Of -mm Development |
| 6. | 25 Mar 2005 - 27 Mar 2005 | (13 posts) | Linux 2.4.30-rc2 Released |
| 7. | 25 Mar 2005 - 27 Mar 2005 | (10 posts) | Linux 2.6.11.6 Released |
| 8. | 26 Mar 2005 - 30 Mar 2005 | (9 posts) | Linux 2.4.30-rc3 Released |
| 9. | 30 Mar 2005 | (1 post) | Linux 2.4.30-rc4 Released |
Mailing List Stats For This Week
We looked at 1781 posts in 11MB. See the Full Statistics.
There were 600 different contributors. 227 posted more than once. The average length of each message was 105 lines.
| The top posters of the week were: | The top subjects of the week were: |
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| 84 posts in 419KB by Adrian Bunk 78 posts in 605KB by Andrew Morton 52 posts in 394KB by Jesper Juhl 42 posts in 219KB by Jeff Garzik 40 posts in 143KB by Lee Revell |
43 posts in 198KB for "How's the nforce4 support in Linux?" 35 posts in 187KB for "[patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01" 27 posts in 125KB for "[patch 0/3] j_state_lock, j_list_lock, remove-bitlocks" 26 posts in 100KB for "Mac mini sound woes" 25 posts in 93KB for "Squashfs without ./.." |
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1. Linux 2.6.11-mm3 Released; Some Mouse Anomalies
12 Mar 2005 - 24 Mar 2005 (58 posts) Archive Link: "2.6.11-mm3"
Topics: FS: devfs, FS: sysfs, Hot-Plugging, Kernel Release Announcement, Power Management: ACPI
People: Andrew Morton, Helge Hafting, Dmitry Torokhov, Vojtech Pavlik
Andrew Morton announced Linux 2.6.11-mm3, saying:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/
A very large update to the CFQ I/O scheduler. Treat with caution, run benchmarks. Remember that the I/O scheduler can be selected on a per-disk basis with
echo as > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
echo cfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
Helge Hafting reported:
2.6.11-mm1 and earlier: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse0
2.6.11-mm3: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse1
No big problem, one change to xorg.conf and I got the mouse back. I guess it wasn't supposed to change like that though?
This is a mouse connected to the ps2 port, also appearing as /dev/psaux
Dmitry Torokhov recommended, "I'd recommend using /dev/input/mice unless you want to _exclude_ some of your input devices. It will get data from all you mice at once and is always available." He explained, "Vojtech activated scroll handling in keyboard code by default so now your keyboard is mapped to the mouse0 and the mouse moved to mouse1." Andrew replied, "We cannot ship a kernel with this change, surely? Our users would come hunting for us with pitchforks." But Vojtech Pavlik replied:
Mouse device numbers are defined to be unstable because of hotplug.
Most users use /dev/input/mice, where this won't have impact.
The officially correct solution is to use udev to get stable device names.
The change is easily reverted - just change the 'atkbd.scroll' default value.
2. Linux 2.4.30-rc1 Released
18 Mar 2005 - 24 Mar 2005 (5 posts) Archive Link: "Linux 2.4.30-rc1"
Topics: Networking, Security
People: Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti announced Linux 2.4.30-rc1, saying, "Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. It contains a small number of fixes, including a fix for recently discovered ppp DoS (CAN-2005-0384)."
3. Linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 Released
21 Mar 2005 - 24 Mar 2005 (72 posts) Subject: "2.6.12-rc1-mm1"
Topics: Kernel Release Announcement, Power Management: ACPI, Sound: ALSA, USB
People: Andrew Morton, Russell King
Andrew Morton announced Linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, saying:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2.6.12-rc1-mm1/
Russell King's ears pricked up at the mention of a bug list; he asked, "Is this your own personal bug list, or is it accessible anywhere?" Andrew replied, "It's just an email folder at present." ... "USB, ALSA, Input, ACPI and suspend are the usual culprits."
4. SquashFS Support For ./ And ../
22 Mar 2005 - 27 Mar 2005 (25 posts) Archive Link: "Squashfs without ./.."
Topics: FS: SquashFS, FS: ramfs
People: Jan Engelhardt, Jesper Juhl, Andreas Schwab, Phil Lougher, H. Peter Anvin
Jan Engelhardt reported, "I have observed that squashfs, when mounted, does not return any "." or ".." pseudo-directories upon readdir. Could this be added? Would there be any objections?" Jesper Juhl replied, "I can't say if there will be any objections or not, but if that's something that people want, then I'd like to take a stab at implementing it - could be fun and I'd love to learn a little more about that area of the kernel, so I'll have a go at it if noone screams." He dove into the code, and Pietro Zuco agreed that this functionality would be useful.
The discussion spiraled around from here; at one point Andreas Schwab remarked, ""." and ".." are handled in the VFS. No filesystem code ever sees them during lookup." Elsewhere, Phil Lougher mentioned:
Cramfs also doesn't store '.' and '..', which is where I got the idea from in the first place when originally implementing Squashfs.
Filesystems don't need to store '.' or ''..' in the filesystem, as they're never looked up by the VFS - as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the VFS handles '.' and '..' internally.
Not storing the redundant '.' and '..' entries within the filesystem achieves a small but nonetheless useful space saving.
He added, "The lack of '.' and '..' entries hasn't caused any problems despite cramfs/squashfs being used for a large number of years. I'm inclined to believe any application that _relies_ on seeing '.' and '..' returned by readdir is broken. This situation is easily fixed within the application rather than forcing the filesystem to unnecessarily fake '.' and '..' entries which are never used."
There was very little support for Phil's position however. H. Peter Anvin said rhetorically at one point, "Are you seriously suggesting changing our behaviour of all the conventional filesystems to a non-Unix behaviour, to match cramfs and squashfs?"
5. Linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 Released; Status Of -mm Development
24 Mar 2005 - 28 Mar 2005 (44 posts) Archive Link: "2.6.12-rc1-mm2"
Topics: Digital Video Broadcasting, Kernel Release Announcement, Sound: ALSA, USB, Version Control
People: Andrew Morton, Lee Revell
Andrew Morton announced Linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm2, saying:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2.6.12-rc1-mm2/
Added Herbert Xu's crypto development tree to the -mm lineup as bk-cryptodev.patch.
-mm kernels now aggregate Linus's tree and 34 subsystem trees. Usually they are pulled 3-4 hours before the release of the -mm kernel.
Usually it is possible to determine the latest cset from each tree by looking at the first couple of lines of the relevant patch in the broken-out/ directory. Although sometimes it isn't there if I had to massage the diff.
Regarding the aggregation of the various subsystem trees and Linus's tree into the -mm series, Lee Revell asked:
Do you notify the subsystem maintainers ahead of time so that critical fixes can be pushed to BK?
I am thinking of the recent ALSA example, where the emu10k1 driver was b0rked in 2.6.12-mm1, but the fix had been in ALSA CVS for a week.
Andrew replied, "Occasionally I'll go out and ping people, but almost always the subsystem guys know what the development cycle is, and they appropriately decide which code should go in, and when." He added, regarding ALSA, "We've been discussing how to get ALSA CVS into ALSA bk more promptly."
6. Linux 2.4.30-rc2 Released
25 Mar 2005 - 27 Mar 2005 (13 posts) Archive Link: "Linux 2.4.30-rc2"
People: Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti announced Linux 2.4.30-rc2, saying:
Here goes the second release candidate for v2.4.30.
It contains a bunch of security updates (ext2 mkdir leak, af_bluetooth range checking, isofs corrupt media, load_elf_library DoS), an ia64 update, another round of networking fixes, amongst others.
If nothing terrible shows up, this will become v2.4.30.
7. Linux 2.6.11.6 Released
25 Mar 2005 - 27 Mar 2005 (10 posts) Archive Link: "Linux 2.6.11.6"
People: Chris Wright
Chris Wright announced Linux 2.6.11.6, saying, "With some pending security fixes it's time to for a -stable update. So, here's 2.6.11.6, in the normal kernel.org places. This includes some security fixes, esp. one which closes a local root exploit in bluetooth."
8. Linux 2.4.30-rc3 Released
26 Mar 2005 - 30 Mar 2005 (9 posts) Archive Link: "Linux 2.4.30-rc3"
Topics: Security
People: Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti announced Linux 2.4.30-rc3, saying, "A nasty typo happened while merging v2.6 load_elf_library() DoS fix, which could leap to oopses."
9. Linux 2.4.30-rc4 Released
30 Mar 2005 (1 post) Archive Link: "Linux 2.4.30-rc4"
Topics: FS: ext3
People: Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti announced Linux 2.4.30-rc4, saying:
Here goes -rc4 to fix a couple of regressions have been confirmed:
Hopefully this will become final in a day or two.
Sharon And Joy
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