From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755508Ab1JYIlP (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:41:15 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:46739 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752283Ab1JYIlO (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:41:14 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: Greg KH Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.8 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:40 +0200." <20111025070240.GB9415@suse.de> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20111025051928.GA7997@kroah.com> <4EA64BDC.8050709@xenotime.net> <20111025070240.GB9415@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1319532063_3131P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:41:03 -0400 Message-ID: <14295.1319532063@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=vivi.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020205.4EA67623.0047,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1319532063_3131P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:40 +0200, Greg KH said: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:40:44PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On 10/24/11 22:19, Greg KH wrote: > > > All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade. > > I noticed that "must" word in 3.0.7 also. Please explain. > Nothing new, I've been saying that for years. I think Randy means that out of the 29 commits for .7->.8, there's only one (Hugh Dicken's mremap fix) and *maybe* Peter Zijlstra's cputimer fix, which even *possibly* rise to the "all users" level, as everything else is against XFS or CIFS or ARM or something else that's not an across-the-board issue. And the changelog for the mremap commit says that "but this lucky report hints", which sort of implies it's a very hard-to-hit bug that nobody even knew was there. So it's not obvious from just the shortlog that it's a "MUST upgrade" category. --==_Exmh_1319532063_3131P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFOpnYfcC3lWbTT17ARAr/RAKCPcRJ2tfQ5ene19/J6yR7oRhctnQCgnHH9 2BNa9LS8gMg+bi8EJUiytkA= =Nh04 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1319532063_3131P--