Re: Linux 2.5.75

[Andi Kleen]

Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> Also, the only real point of a stable release is for distribution makers.
> That pretty much cuts the list of "needs to be supported" down to x86,
> ia64, x86-64 and possibly sparc/alpha.

No ppc, ppc64, s390?

Current bad issues for x86-64: 

- IDE Taskfile IO when enabled corrupts file systems on AMD8111
(on others too?).  This is the worst because there is no fix available.
I would propose to completely disable taskfile in Kconfig 
until the issue is resolved.

- Reiserfs zeroes every second 4K block in any write >4K on 64bit systems
(patch is in -mm*). Hopefully the patch can be merged before 2.6-pre.

and 

- doesn't compile (trivial fixes are already sent) 

-Andi