Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Aug 1996 10:12:55 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Linux-2.0.11 |
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I just released Linux-2.0.11, which mainly contains various device driver patches, notably the IDE patches. With 2.0.11, I (and I'm sure Mark will underwrite that too) sincerely hope that the IDE driver now works for everybody. I hope people will try this out, and make really sure that is indeed the case.
The 2.0.11 kernel also contains the ELF fixes that make it work on the alpha (and potentially other architectures too). As such, you should be able to use a standard kernel with the upcoming ELF/alpha release.
A big thanks to Mark who worked overtime on the IDE problems, and everybody who tested and have been doing other things..
Btw, people have been complaining about the chaos of 2.0.x. I can only say that most of the problems are simply because people don't try out pre-releases. I _tried_ to get people to try out the "pre-2.0" kernels (the only reason I did the numbering change was the psychological angle on people who wouldn't otherwise have tried it out), but 2.0 obviously had more users still.
With more users comes more problem reports, and it takes a while to fix them. I'm not making excuses, quite the reverse: I urge you all to update your kernels so that we _can_ get the problems fixed. Send in problem reports, and we'll slowly get a kernel that hopefully works for everybody.
Linus
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