The 2.6.31 kernel is out

The 2.6.31 kernel is out

Posted Sep 10, 2009 16:49 UTC (Thu) by mingo (subscriber, #31122)
In reply to: The 2.6.31 kernel is out by larryr
Parent article: The 2.6.31 kernel is out

This bug was reported 9 days ago - that's borderline even for trivial fixes and generally they dont make it upstream unless affecting a significant number of users.

Note how late it was apparently reported despite it being triggerable in -rc1 already [which was released on June 24th] - suggesting that it either was not critical enough for people to report sooner, or was not hit by enough people (or by the right people) to be reported in time.

(or somehow it was reported but did not get on the regression list. Cc: Rafael to make sure it gets on the regression list.)

Bugs that get reported in time and have trivial fixes do get fixed in the release.

Also note that if the fix is trivial it will go into v2.6.31.1 - which will be released at around the same time a delayed v2.6.31 would have been released. So there's no delay for you in terms of getting a fixed stable kernel.

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