I am sure somebody will find one in short order.  My point was that I can
not believe developers have done there testing in the 2.4 "Stable" series
instead of branching and starting the 2.5 series, as they should have 9
months ago.  I think the Linux kernel should be maintained via cvs/cvsup
instead of bulk archive downloads -- but that is another issue.  Create one
tree for stable and one tree for current, in the FreeBSD model.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie at wookimus.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] 2.4.15/2.5 fs bug

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:50:47AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> I am beginning to give up hope of EVER having a stable kernel with out
MAJOR
> bugs in the 2.4 series of Linux.  What the hell is Linus doing these days
> for development -- testing out in 2.4?

ChangeLog for 2.4.16:

final:

- Fix 8139too oops              (Philipp Matthias Hahn)

pre1:
- Correctly sync inodes in iput()                          (Alexander Viro)
- Make pagecache readahead size tunable via /proc          (was in -ac tree)
- Fix PPC kernel compilation problems                      (Paul Mackerras)

Doesn't look like a whole lot of changes to me.  You can probably start
breathing normally again, Tom. ;-)

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