Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Oct 2008 09:06 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for "pure" flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here.
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I have no source handy, but yes, it should be fixed now.
Edit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=...
Edited 2008-10-10 09:52 UTC
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LWN to the rescue: http://lwn.net/Articles/302556/
There's a workaround, but it's not fixed (yet).
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http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/30/3451554/th...
Linus does not consider this to have been a software bug per se:
"Btw, the _real_ bug is clearly in the hardware design that allows you to brick those things without apparently even having a lock bit.
I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw designer should be thinking hard about which orifice they put their head up in.
I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw designer should be thinking hard about which orifice they put their head up in.
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2008-05-27
Is this fixed? http://lwn.net/Articles/301251/
From the changelog I can't tell...