On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > This disables libata ACPI, among other things. > > > > If a -rc6 is possible, that would be quite nice... > > Heh. I don't think -rc6 is "possible" - it's "inevitable". We have too > much fallout from the timer changes still outstanding. It looks people > finally figured out a big issue with the HPET timer, and that hopefully > resolves most of the remaining timer-related regressions, but yes, we most > definitely _will_ have an -rc6. yup. > Andrew, what's your feeling apart from the timer fallout? There are two main metrics: a) the number of bugs which Adrian is tracking. I think this still exceeds 25, which is a lot. b) the rate at which fixes are arriving. I have accumulated 15-20 since the last batch (40 hours ago), which is still a pretty high rate. Based on that, we're still quite a long way from -final. (But you know me - I'd be happy releasing 2.6.21 in July) (Don't ask me what year I'm referring to, either) There is another metric to look at, too: the number of fixes which are going into 2.6.x.y. If that fix count is high, and if those fixes fix bugs which were not present in 2.6.x-1 then this is an indication that something is wrong - many regressions are sneaking through the -rc process. And I haven't run the numbers, but I get the impression that 2.6.20.x has an unusually large number of fixes in it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
