Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc2

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hmm.
>
> New 'microblaze' architecture, a somewhat late 'input' layer merge, a new
> intel virtual networking driver and some firmware loading updates. And
> mn10300 and frv moved their header files from include/asm to arch. That
> accounts for the bulk, but shouldn't affect anybody.
>
> Otherwise? Some driver updates (ide, infiniband, sgi-xp, intel dri,
> watchdog). nilfs2 and xfs filesystem updates.
>
> And random small fixes. Not all as small as I'd wish for, but it's just
> early -rc2, and it at least feels less chaotic than some other -rc2's. But
> maybe that's my optimistic nature again.
>
> Shortlog appended, it might give people some flavor of the kinds of
> changes there were.
>
>                Linus

[snip]

Takes a few seconds to not build here, with oldconfig as per rc1-git7:

[...]
  LD      init/mounts.o
  CC      init/initramfs.o
  CC      init/calibrate.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  HOSTCC  usr/gen_init_cpio
  GEN     usr/initramfs_data.cpio
  AS      usr/initramfs_data.o
  LD      usr/built-in.o
  CC      arch/x86/kernel/process_64.o
  CC      arch/x86/kernel/signal.o
  AS      arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.o
  CC      arch/x86/kernel/traps.o
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:57:28: error: asm/mach_traps.h: No such file
or directory
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c: In function ‘default_do_nmi’:
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:397: error: implicit declaration of function
‘get_nmi_reason’
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/traps.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2

--alessandro

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