approaching 4.5.21 release

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:12:14PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:12:46AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Thanks as usual, Dmitry.  It seems to me we've accumulated quite enough
> > good stuff to have a 4.5.21 release soon.  Perhaps even one of these days
> > we should call it 4.6?  (The change of the -f mechanism seems like as major
> > a thing as we've had in a long time or are likely to have in the
> > foreseeable future.)  What do you think?
> 
> I agree, the amount of changes we've made since 4.5.20 qualifies for a
> new release.  I test HEAD on x86 and x86-64 regularly, and there are no
> known regressions since 4.5.20.
> 
> The following pre-release work have to be done:
> - merge pending patches if any (please speak up);
> - sync syscallent.h and ioctlent.h files with the latest linux kernel;
> - sync debian/ changes;
> - test on supported non-x86 architectures.
> 
> I've updated linux/ioctlent.h already, and I think I can update x86,
> x86_64 and maybe arm files myself, but I definitely need help to update
> and test other architectures.

I still need help to
- sync debian/ changes, Cc'ed Frederik with hope he could commit these
  changes himself;
- update linux/[^b]*/ioctlent.h, these files are quite outdated;
- test HEAD on all supported architectures except x86, x86-64 and bfin
  which seem to work fine.


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