Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.2.16: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:49:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> and I always thought the 2.2 series are well-tested (I mean _before_ > release). So 2.2.15 already was severly broken (see > http://www.sendmail.org), now 2.2.16 is also broken. The solution
The obscure capability bug goes bnack to 2.1.x
> Seriously I think 1.3MB (compressed) patches for a stable kernel are > too large. Also I (not reading this list) see no motivation for the
Mostly driver patches (in fact in .15 mostly unicode tables and firmware) which dont have the same kind of impact. I don't have control over the rate people fix problems.
> change. 2.2.14 seemed to that bad though, and both 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 > missed an important updated for AIC7xxx "domain validation".
The AIC7xxx fix was not applied because it broke more cards than it fixed.
Alan
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