Hello and welcome to the last edition of the year!
-Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo has perf/core improvements and fixes, David
Miller has a few bug fixes for sparc and networking, and Linus announces
the seventh and last release candidate :
There it is, likely the last -rc in before final 3.2, so please do
check it out in between your holiday festivities.Most of the changes are faily simple one-liners, but some qla4xxx
driver updates stand out and in fact account for about 40% of the diff
(“qla4xxx: fix flash/ddb support”). That, together with a VMWare DRI
driver update and some dvb updates and the regular random driver fixes
means that 80+% of the changes are in drivers.Some net updates, some SH updates, and then a (tiny) smattering of
other stuff. The appended shortlog gives the (fairly boring) details,
-Dave Airlie has drm fixes, one for radeon and another for vmwgfx,
Avi Kivity has quite important KVM fixes and David Miller updates
networking:
1) AF_PACKET bind() can leak a netdevice reference, from Wei Yongjun.
2) netem erroneously calls vfree() under spinlock and soft interrupt
disable, fix from Eric Dumazet.3) ctnetlink_get_expect() can make nfnetlink loop forever when it
returns -EAGAIN in situations where it should not, fix from
Pablo Neira Ayuso.4) Autoloading connection tracking helpers cannot be done with
spinlocks held because that operation sleeps, fix also from Pablo.
-Ben Myers has an XFS update for 3.2, Sage Weil has ceph fixes, also
for 3.2, and…this is it for this edition, good folks. May you have a happy
new year and see you next year!
