0.5.5 release planning (Was Re: [PATCH] fix spec if rebuild from distributed package)

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 09:19 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> I believe that in the earlier thread when the first patch was proposed
> by Danny Kukawka, there was some discussion as to whether this was a
> kernel bug or not.  In that thread Kay Sievers seemed to be of the
> opinion this was the proper way to work with the kernel, and it's
> possible event timing idiosyncrasies.
> 
> > 
> > Does the mounting work now?
> 
> With Danny's patch the mounting did work much better, almost perfect.  I
> created my revision for the following reasons.
> 
> 1)  Under high latency environments this gives a bit more stability by
> retrying more and giving up to .6 seconds for /proc/mounts to be updated
> 2)  It stays in the function for shortest possible time (relatively) for
> both mount and unmount events. Previously unmount had to always go
> through the delay loop.
> 3)  By doing obscene things on the desktop, ie. mounting and unmounting
> a cdrom while unpugging my 6 port card reader with multiple cards in it
> and plugging and unplugging multiple usb drives I could get the race
> condition to happen.  I know this is an absolutely ridiculous situation,
> but I would like the removable media process in Hal to be as reliable as
> possible.
> 
> > 
> > As for 0.5.5, my acpi, apm and pmu updates are always trickling in, so
> > whenever is convenient for you David, is good for me.
> > 
> > We haven't had a release in ages, and I'm fed up of telling the ubuntu
> > and rawhide people "bug fixed in CVS"... :-)
> > 
> > Richard.
> > 
> 
> I am not in love with this exact patch by any means, it was more of a
> design proposal.  I am completely open on any changes suggested, or
> ditching it all together.

Can we get 0.5.5 out of the door before we do any more invasive patches?

Richard.