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On Friday 12 April 2013 23:41:05 Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> Attached you will find the various changes I plan to apply to |
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> kernel-2.eclass |
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Thank you for these. |
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> That being said, since 3.8.7 has landed upstream we would like to hear |
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> about any issues we don't know about yet that would block stabilization; |
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> if we can, I plan to start stabilization in less than two weeks. Unless |
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> there are valid reasons for this to be done earlier/later. |
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1/ Thank you for telling about your intentions. |
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2/ The following is for information. I do not mean that it should block the |
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stabilization of the gentoo-sources-3.8.7 and I won't open a bug blocking it. |
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Up to you to decide if it should actually block it or not : |
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- ck-sources-3.8.3 users reported to me a regression occurring when booting in |
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UEFI mode. |
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- After analysis, I believe that it is related to a problem reported here : |
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/461 |
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- A couple of patches have been submitted by Matthew Garrett : |
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/19/487 |
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/661 |
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/669 |
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- I have parsed (but possibly not carefully enough) Greg's logs for the 3.8 |
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branch and the above mentioned patches does not seem having been backported. |
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=> I believe that this regression is likely to still be efficient in 3.8.7. |
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Gratefully, |
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Eric |
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