Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Request for 2.4.20 to be a non-trivial-bugfixes-only version | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:42:17 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > point where on the hole the painting and bolt tightening is all that needs > > doing. The 2.4 tree suffered serious earthquake damage in 2.4.10 which > > hasn't entirely been fixed yet. > > Okay...ah...in this case: What, precisely, *is* the problem since 2.4.10 ?
Linus changed the VM and chunks of the block layer in 2.4.10, that set back stability work very seriously. It was a mistake but it happened, and most of the repair work is done now. Not all of it. We've also gained things like file system direct I/O as a result, so long term it may pay off, even though it should have gone into 2.5 for stabilizing first - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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