Linux 2.6.32
Linus Torvalds
This release _feels_ long overdue due to two empty weeks for me (kernel
summit and thanksgiving week vacation), but it's actually less than three
months since 2.6.31, so I guess it's actually not that far off the normal
schedule.
I've been merging a few things that were pending while I was offline, but
it really seems to have been pretty quiet. The biggest thing since -rc8
is the horribly timed stability fixes for fscache, which caused some
hickups and I really wish it hadn't happened that way, but apart from that
it's mainly small updates (and mainly drivers).
The dirstat from -rc8 looks like
2.7% arch/blackfin/
5.8% arch/
2.1% drivers/misc/eeprom/
3.5% drivers/net/e1000e/
9.6% drivers/net/
3.9% drivers/staging/
2.0% drivers/usb/musb/
2.8% drivers/usb/
34.8% drivers/
4.1% fs/cachefiles/
24.9% fs/fscache/
32.6% fs/
14.5% kernel/
3.7% net/
and that fs/ and kernel/ noise is mostly from that fscache thing (the
kernel subdirectory part is the "slow-work" stuff that fscache uses), and
the shortlog is appended.
As to the "big feature" changes in 2.6.32 since 31 - I think we have a
release without any actual new filesystem for once, but there's been a
fair amount of changes to btrfs, and the block layer writeback itself has
been through major updates, and the whole per-bdi writeback thing is a
pretty big change.
Other rather noticeable changes are in KSM (both intel and radeon) and in
drivers all over the place. As usual, kernelnewbies (and other sites, for
that matter) has more details for people who want to delve into it all by
subsystem.
Linus
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Ajay Kumar Gupta (2):
USB: musb: Remove unwanted message in boot log
USB: musb: fix ISOC Tx programming for CPPI DMAs
Alan Cox (2):
V4L/DVB (13530): Fix wrong parameter order in memset
tty_port: handle the nonblocking open of a dead port corner case
Alan Stern (2):
PM: fix irq enable/disable in runtime PM code
USB: EHCI: don't send Clear-TT-Buffer following a STALL
Alek Du (1):
gpio: Langwell GPIO driver bugfixes
Alex Chiang (1):
cciss: make device attrs static
Alexander Beregalov (1):
Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev()
Alexey Kuznetsov (1):
[SCSI] fix crash when disconnecting usb storage
Alexey Starikovskiy (1):
ACPICA: Silence the warning about _BIF returning the buffer
Amit Kumar Salecha (1):
netxen: fix memory initialization
Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul (1):
sctp: on T3_RTX retransmit all the in-flight chunks
Andrew Morton (1):
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c: needs semaphore.h
Andrￜ Goddard Rosa (1):
Blackfin: fix cache Kconfig typo
Anisse Astier (1):
Input: i8042 - add Dell Vostro 1320, 1520 and 1720 to the reset list
Antti Kaijanmï¿œki (2):
hso: fix debug routines
hso: fix soft-lockup
Antti Palosaari (1):
V4L/DVB (13366): em28xx: fix Reddo DVB-C USB TV Box GPIO
Anuj Aggarwal (1):
ASoC: AIC23: Fixing infinite loop in resume path
Atsushi Nemoto (1):
SPI: spi_txx9: Fix bit rate calculation
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
Staging: update TODO files
Becky Bruce (1):
powerpc: Fix DEBUG_HIGHMEM build break from d4515646699
Bruce Allan (7):
e1000e: partial revert of 3ec2a2b8 plus FC workraround for 82577/8
e1000e: read of PHY register may access wrong page on 82578
e1000e: set flow control thresholds properly after enabling/disabling pause
e1000e: add Tx timeout factor for 100Mbps
e1000e: flow control thresholds not correct when changing mtu
e1000e: remove unnecessary 82577 workaround causing link issues
e1000e: do not initiate autonegotiation during OEM configuration
Chris Wilson (2):
drm/i915: Avoid potential sleep whilst holding spinlock
drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM
Chuck Ebbert (1):
crypto: padlock-aes - Use the correct mask when checking whether copying is required
Clemens Ladisch (1):
drm/fb: fix FBIOGET/PUT_VSCREENINFO pixel clock handling
Coly Li (1):
ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs()
Csaba Henk (1):
fuse: reject O_DIRECT flag also in fuse_create
Dan Carpenter (2):
wan: cosa: drop chan->wsem on error path
drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c: fix use after free in pcf50633_rtc_probe()
Dan Williams (9):
ioat: silence "dca disabled" messages
ioat3: dca and raid operations are incompatible
ioat2,3: disable asynchronous error notifications
ioat3: specify valid address for disabled-Q or disabled-P
ioat2,3: report all uncorrectable errors
dmaengine: include xor/pq validate in device_has_all_tx_types()
async_tx: build-time toggling of async_{syndrome,xor}_val dma support
ioat3: fix pq completion versus channel deallocation race
shdma: fix initialization error handling
Daniel Glï¿œckner (2):
USB: musb: respect usb_request->zero in control requests
USB: musb: Fix CPPI IRQs not being signaled
Daniel Mack (2):
[ARM] pxa/cpufreq: fix index assignments for end marker
[ARM] pxamci: call mmc_remove_host() before freeing resources
Dave Airlie (3):
drm/radeon/kms: resume AGP by calling init.
drm/radeon/kms: fix handling of d1/d2 vga
drm/radeon/kms: read back register before writing in IIO.
Dave Jones (1):
Staging: hv: Fix argument order in incorrect memset invocations in hyperv driver.
David Daney (3):
MIPS: Octeon: Fix compile error in drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c
Staging: Octeon: Use symbolic values for irq numbers.
Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses.
David Ford (1):
ipv4: additional update of dev_net(dev) to struct *net in ip_fragment.c, NULL ptr OOPS
David Howells (31):
SLOW_WORK: Wait for outstanding work items belonging to a module to clear
SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file
SLOW_WORK: Allow the owner of a work item to determine if it is queued or not
SLOW_WORK: Allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread is needed
FS-Cache: Annotate slow-work runqueue proc lines for FS-Cache work items
FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functions
FS-Cache: Clear netfs pointers in cookie after detaching object, not before
FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
9p: fix build breakage introduced by FS-Cache
SLOW_WORK: Fix the CONFIG_MODULES=n case
SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
David J. Choi (1):
drivers/net: ks8851_mll ethernet network driver -resubmit
David S. Miller (8):
sparc64: Fix definition of VMEMMAP_SIZE.
sunsab: Do not set sunsab_reg.cons right before registering minors.
sunsu: Fix detection of SU ports which are RSC console or control.
serial: suncore: Add 'ignore_line' argument to sunserial_console_match().
serial: suncore: Fix RSC/LOM handling in sunserial_console_termios().
sunsu: Pass true 'ignore_line' to console match when RSC or LOM console.
sunsu: Use sunserial_console_termios() in sunsu_console_setup().
b44: Fix wedge when using netconsole.
David Woodhouse (1):
jffs2: Fix memory corruption in jffs2_read_inode_range()
Eric Dumazet (4):
ieee802154: dont leak skbs in ieee802154_fake_xmit()
veth: Fix veth_get_stats()
pktgen: Fix device name compares
pktgen: Fix netdevice unregister
Eric W. Biederman (1):
USB: ftdi_sio: Keep going when write errors are encountered.
Florian Fainelli (3):
ep93xx-eth: check for zero MAC address on probe, not on device open
rc32434_wdt: fix compilation failure
MIPS: RB532: Fix devices.c compilation.
Geert Uytterhoeven (3):
net: ETHOC should depend on HAS_DMA
V4L/DVB (13412): SMS_SIANO_MDTV should depend on HAS_DMA
fbdev: Migrate mailing lists to vger
Gernot Hillier (1):
USB: Add support for Mobilcom Debitel USB UMTS Surf-Stick to option driver
Gertjan van Wingerde (1):
.gitignore: Add bzip2 compressed files
Giuseppe CAVALLARO (2):
stmmac: fixed a compilation error when use the external timer
stmmac: do not fail when the timer cannot be used.
Graf Yang (1):
Blackfin: fix SMP build error in start_thread()
Guennadi Liakhovetski (2):
V4L/DVB (13343): v4l: add more missing linux/sched.h includes
V4L/DVB (13344): soc-camera: properly initialise the device object when reusing
H Hartley Sweeten (1):
[WATCHDOG] rc32434_wdt.c: use resource_size()
Haiyang Zhang (2):
Staging: hv: Fix vmbus event handler bug
Staging: hv: Fix some missing author names
Hans Verkuil (3):
V4L/DVB (13321): radio-gemtek-pci: fix double mutex_lock
V4L/DVB (13371): davinci: remove stray duplicate config pointer
V4L/DVB (13481): sh_mobile_ceu_camera: fix compile warning
Harald Welte (1):
[CPUFREQ] Enable ACPI PDC handshake for VIA/Centaur CPUs
Helge Deller (2):
parisc: fix unwind with recent gcc versions
modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs
Hemant Pedanekar (1):
ide: fix ioctl to pass requested transfer mode to ide_find_dma_mode instead of UDMA6
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (1):
thinkpad-acpi: fix detection of old ThinkPads
Huang Ying (1):
crypto: gcm - fix another complete call in complete fuction
Ivan Vecera (1):
r8169: restore mac addr in rtl8169_remove_one and rtl_shutdown
James Bottomley (1):
[SCSI] fix async scan add/remove race resulting in an oops
Jaswinder Singh Rajput (1):
ixgbe: move tc variable to CONFIG_IXGBE_DCB
Jay Fenlason (2):
firewire: ohci: Make cycleMatch ISO transmission work
firewire: ohci: pass correct iso xmit timestamps to core
Jean Delvare (2):
MAINTAINERS: Add missing i2c files
i2c: Fix userspace_device list corruption
Jean PIHET (1):
ARM: 5793/1: ARM: Check put_user fail in do_signal when enable OABI_COMPAT
Jens Axboe (3):
SLOW_WORK: Make slow_work_ops ->get_ref/->put_ref optional
SLOW_WORK: Add support for cancellation of slow work
SLOW_WORK: Add delayed_slow_work support
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
drm: make sure page protections are updated after changing vm_flags
Jerome Glisse (3):
drm/radeon/kms: Disable TV load detect on RS400,RC410,RS480
drm: mm always protect change to unused_nodes with unused_lock spinlock
drm/radeon/kms: Report vga connector is connected according to ddc_probe
Jerone Young (1):
ACPI: Add Thinkpad T400, T500 to OSI(Linux) white-list
Jesse Barnes (1):
drm: work around EDIDs with bad htotal/vtotal values
Jiang Yutang (1):
sata_fsl: Split hard and soft reset
Jie Zhang (1):
Blackfin: fix typo in ptrace poking
Joel Becker (1):
ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
Johannes Berg (5):
mac80211: fix addba timer (again...)
mac80211: fix resume
rfkill: fix miscdev ops
mac80211: fix two remote exploits
mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling
Johannes Weiner (2):
rtc-x1205: fix rtc_time to y2k register value conversion
rtc-x1205: reset clock to sane state after power failure
John W. Linville (1):
ath9k: set ps_default as false
Julia Lawall (3):
arch/alpha/kernel/sys_ruffian.c: Use DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST
arch/alpha/kernel: Add kmalloc NULL tests
VIDEO: Correct use of request_region/request_mem_region
Kevin Wells (3):
i2c: i2c-pnx: Limit minimum jiffie timeout to 2
i2c: i2c-pnx: Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension
i2c: i2c-pnx: Added missing mach/i2c.h and linux/io.h header file includes
Kuninori Morimoto (1):
V4L/DVB (13345): soc-camera: sh_mobile_ceu_camera: call pm_runtime_disable
Len Brown (1):
ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for HP-Compaq C700
Linus Torvalds (1):
Linux 2.6.32
Marc Dionne (1):
CacheFiles: Update IMA counters when using dentry_open
Mark Brown (3):
ASoC: Fix suspend with active audio streams
mfd: Correct WM831X_MAX_ISEL_VALUE
regulator: Initialise wm831x structure pointor for ISINK driver
Martin K. Petersen (1):
[SCSI] sd: Return correct error code for DIF
Martin Michlmayr (1):
MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable early printk to fix boot problems on some systems.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
staging/go7007: Fix compilation by re-adding the missing s2250-loader.h
Maxime Bizon (1):
bcm63xx_uart: Fix serial driver compile breakage.
Michael Cree (1):
Alpha: Rearrange thread info flags fixing two regressions
Michael Hennerich (1):
Blackfin: fix suspend/resume failure with some on-chip ROMs
Michal Simek (1):
tty/of_serial: add missing ns16550a id
Michele Jr De Candia (1):
i2c/tsl2550: Fix lux value in extended mode
Mike Frysinger (3):
Blackfin: update anomaly lists
Blackfin: work around testset anomaly 05000477
Blackfin: check for anomaly 05000475
Narender Kumar (2):
netxen: fix promisc for NX2031.
netxen : fix BOND_MODE_TLB/ALB mode.
NeilBrown (1):
md: revert incorrect fix for read error handling in raid1.
Oliver Neukum (1):
USB: work around for EHCI with quirky periodic schedules
Olivier Lorin (1):
V4L/DVB (13372a): MAINTAINERS: addition of gspca_gl860 driver
Patrick McHardy (4):
netfilter: xt_osf: fix xt_osf_remove_callback() return value
netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context in seq_show()
netfilter: xt_limit: fix invalid return code in limit_mt_check()
macvlan: fix gso_max_size setting
Pavel Machek (1):
[ARM] pxa/spitz: fix compile regression on spitz
Pete Eberlein (1):
V4L/DVB (13372): staging/go7007: fix mutex function usage for s2250
Peter Feuerer (1):
acerhdf: return temperature in milidegree instead of degree
Peter Horton (1):
aoe: prevent cache aliases
Ralf Baechle (3):
MIPS: Fix build error if __xchg() is not getting inlined.
MIPS: Add missing definition for MADV_HWPOISON.
MIPS: Fix MIPS I build.
Randy Dunlap (1):
sysfs: fix SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 prompt
Robert Lowery (1):
V4L/DVB (13436): cxusb: Fix hang on DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 (rev 1)
Roel Kluin (3):
netfilter: xt_osf: fix xt_osf_remove_callback() return value
thinkpad-acpi: fix sign of ERESTARTSYS return
Blackfin: fix memset in smp_send_reschedule() and -stop()
Roger Oksanen (1):
e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure
Romit Dasgupta (1):
Thaw refrigerated bdi flusher threads before invoking kthread_stop on them
Russell King (7):
[ARM] kmap: fix build errors with DEBUG_HIGHMEM enabled
ARM: PNX4008: fix watchdog device driver name
ARM: PNX4008: i2c-pnx: use the same dev_id for request_irq and free_irq
MAINTAINERS: add maintainer information for AMBA primecell drivers
[ARM] Update mach-types
ALSA: AACI: fix AC97 multiple-open bug
ALSA: AACI: fix recording bug
Russell King - ARM Linux (1):
NET: smc91x: Fix irq flags
Rusty Russell (1):
param: don't complain about unused module parameters.
Sam Ravnborg (1):
kbuild: stepping down as maintainer
Samuel Thibault (1):
Input: keyboard - fix braille keyboard keysym generation
Sergei Shtylyov (1):
USB: musb_gadget: fix STALL handling
Steve French (3):
[CIFS] fix oops in cifs_lookup during net boot
[CIFS] Duplicate data on appending to some Samba servers
[CIFS] Fix sparse warning
Steve Glendinning (1):
smsc9420: prevent BUG() if ethtool is called with interface down
Steven Rostedt (1):
kconfig: Fix make O=<dir> local{mod,yes}config
Sudhakar Rajashekhara (1):
davinci: fb: fix frame buffer driver issues
Sunil Mushran (2):
ocfs2: Refresh documentation
ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal
Tao Ma (2):
ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place.
ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink.
Thomas Dahlmann (1):
usb: amd5536udc: fixed shared interrupt bug and warning oops
Thomas Gleixner (1):
alpha: Fixup last users of irq_chip->typename
Wolfram Sang (1):
at24: Use timeout also for read
Wu Fengguang (1):
netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context in seq_show()
Wu Zhangjin (2):
MIPS: Loongson: Disallow 4kB pages
MIPS: Loongson: Switch from flatmem to sparsemem
Zhenyu Wang (5):
drm/i915: Fix and cleanup DPLL calculation for Ironlake
drm/i915: HDMI hardware workaround for Ironlake
drm/i915: Add more registers save/restore for Ironlake suspend
agp/intel: new host bridge support
drm/i915: Fix CRT hotplug detect by checking really no channels attached
Zou, Nanhai (1):
drm/i915: Fix IRQ stall issue on Ironlake
chait...@ti.com (1):
TI DaVinci EMAC: Minor macro related updates
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> André Goddard Rosa (1):
> Blackfin: fix cache Kconfig typo
>
> Anisse Astier (1):
> Input: i8042 - add Dell Vostro 1320, 1520 and 1720 to the reset list
>
> Antti Kaijanmäki (2):
> Daniel Glöckner (2):
Gene Heskett
>This release _feels_ long overdue due to two empty weeks for me (kernel
What may be a minor niggle during the build using my attached script:
======From the scripts output=========
now making a new initrd.2.6.32.img
resolveDevice: device spec expected
and copying it to /boot/initrd-2.6.32.img
===============
The 2nd line above is new, but a "man mkinitrd" doesn't address it on this
F10 box. Comment?
A cursory scan through the build history shows this unrelated but new
warning:
--------------------
drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c: In function ‘acpi_tb_create_local_fadt’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.32/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:74: warning: array
subscript is above array bounds
-------------------
I haven't rebooted to it yet so I'll save this & send (or expand) when I
have.
::::::::::
That was fun. I had to reboot twice, first time with the hdwe reset button,
2nd time by several ctl-alt-del's.
Both shutdowns, from .32-rc8 and from .32 did multiple Oopsen, naming
dcache.c line 670 as the culprit. With mount.cifs mentioned also.
That has been present and not a huge problem for several of the 31 and 32-rcX
kernels. I could capture with a camera, but I believe I have seen msgs here
on the list about it already.
The reason for the 2nd reboot is that udev did not enumerate, or initialize,
any of the devices on an FTDI extension cable that runs to the basement,
where an elderly color computer 3 lives. There is an additional hub on the
end of that cable, with several connections to it, and I had to find that
cable, unplug it from the local hub and re-plug it before the stuff on the
other end of the cable materialized. It is not normally powered, so the
enumeration usually stops at that hub in the basement (and usb power was on
it ok), with everything else coming alive as they are powered up. The 2nd
reboot was to see if it was all there if it was powered up, and it is.
I'll go back to lurking till next time. Many thanks to all.
--
Cheers, Gene
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Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
<torv...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
Dear Torvalds,
May I know if Xen paravirt-ops dom0 support will be merged upstream
into Linux kernel 2.6.33?
Fedora 12's release notes page speculates that support for Xen dom0
will be available in 2.6.33.
Thank you very much.
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Pasi Kärkkäinen
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torv...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
>
> Dear Torvalds,
>
> May I know if Xen paravirt-ops dom0 support will be merged upstream
> into Linux kernel 2.6.33?
>
> Fedora 12's release notes page speculates that support for Xen dom0
> will be available in 2.6.33.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
Mr. Teo En Ming: Jeremy is the Xen maintainer, and he hasn't sent pull
request for Xen pv_ops dom0 patches.
I don't think he's going to submit Xen dom0 patches for 2.6.33. You
should talk with Jeremy about it.
-- Pasi
Johannes Stezenbach
it seems no one else dares to ask, so I'll bite:
Why is the kernel NAME no longer updated?
Johannes
Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>
> it seems the lkml spam filter ate your reply,
> maybe you shouldn't have mentioned the er**** pickled herring?
> I'll keep a (slightly censored) full quote below,
> hoping it gets through. It would be a shame if
> this essential information would be withheld from
> the Linux community ;-)
Actually, it wasn't about the er**** pickled herring, and your censored
email failed to get through too.
I think it's the word "b*droom" that triggered the problem - it's on the
taboo list. I censored that one too, let's see if this now goes through.
What a nasty lkml taboo list. Some of those entries really are very crazy
aggressive.
Linus
---
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:41:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > >
> > > it seems no one else dares to ask, so I'll bite:
> > > Why is the kernel NAME no longer updated?
> >
> > I'm not sure that you didn't mistype 'dares' (that 'c' is close to the 'd'
> > key on at least /my/ keyboard), but the answer is simple: I change the
> > name totally randomly, and it's usually brought on by me reading something
> > that struck me as funny.
> >
> > So the current "Man-eating Seals of Antiquity" comes from Bart Ehrman's
> > book "Jesus Interrupted". The previous one "Vindictive Armadillo", was I
> > think from an email that Alan Cox sent (probably some odd comment or
> > signature). The one before that was just due to the tasmanian devil
> > mascot, while "Er**** Pickled Herring" was due to a NY-Times article that
> > said - quote - "It's as er**** as pickled herring."
> >
> > [ Really. Look it up:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/arts/27abro.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
> >
> > and tell me that "Er**** Pickled Herring" doesn't make sense as a name
> > for the kernel - or a rock band, for that matter. ]
> >
> > And "Killer Bat of Doom" was due to a cute small bat somehow getting lost,
> > and ending up in Patricia's b*droom (it happened twice, and we have no
> > idea how it got in).
> >
> > But I no longer remember what the background for "Rotary Wombat" and
> > "Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it" was.
> >
> > "Nocturnal Monster Puppy" was when Teddy (our dog) was little, and I had
> > to wake up a couple of times a night to take him out to pee. And "Lordi
> > Rules" was when hell froze over, and Finland won the Eurovision (if you
> > were Finnish, you'd understand - the largest newspaper in Finland
> > literally had "Hell Freezes Over" as the main story on the front page).
> >
> > Linus
> >
>
> Thanks,
David Miller
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:54:11 -0800 (PST)
> What a nasty lkml taboo list. Some of those entries really are very crazy
> aggressive.
I should just remove them all since we do use dynamic spam
filtering these days.
Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, David Miller wrote:
>
> I should just remove them all since we do use dynamic spam
> filtering these days.
One that struck me was the "<slash>gall<slash>" entry. I assume it's from
some email that tries to helpfully connect people with pictures of
well-endowed females (presumably "gall" is short for "gallery"), but it's
also a simple and short english word.
Tha _gall_ of some people to do things like that! Imagine if I tried to
write that in italics rather than underlined?
Similarly, while cursing is fine (goodie - otherwise half my emails would
get eaten :^), and I can say "Goddamn everybody to Hell", I would be in
trouble if I wrote "Jesus H Christ, that's stupid" and didn't have that
'H' in there.
And trigegring on "god<space>fearing" is apparently also a sure-fire way
to get rid of the religious nuttery spam without ever triggering in normal
cases? Really?
That said, most of the taboo list is pretty amusing and I suspect hard to
trigger in any real email. But parts of that list do look pretty
debatable.
Linus
David Miller
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:49:28 -0800 (PST)
> That said, most of the taboo list is pretty amusing and I suspect hard to
> trigger in any real email. But parts of that list do look pretty
> debatable.
You can tell how every single one of them were all written in response
to specific spams that did make it to the lists.