Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:10:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chris Ricker <> | Subject | Re: Strange Ethernet Device Errors in 2.1.106/7 |
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Scott Lampert <fortunato@altair.heavymetal.org> wrote: > Well, perhaps it would be easier to pick out changes like this if the >Changelog was written in chronological order like in the vast majority of >other sources. Or perhaps an "Important Changes That You Should Know Since The >Last Version" section. I usually just download the whole kernel so I didn't >notice the change in the Changelog. Thanks for the pointer.
FWIW, that particular information (about needing to upgrade ifconfig) has been in the Changes file a very long time. Even if I did things as you propose, you'd not have noticed because it wouldn't have been in the "Changes since the last version" section.... See Keith Owen's comments as well....
Also, keep in mind that multiple people tend to submit patches for Changes, which causes confusion (as evidenced by the two different comments about ip chains in the current file), and that the Changes file is always a few releases behing the kernel since it's maintained by users (myself ;-) submitting patches to Linus as things break.
I try to basically group things by topic (and then chronologically w/in topics) simply because that's easiest for most people to use. In your case, you're having a network problem that's new, so go to the networking section and look towards the bottom if you can't spare the time to read all the paragraphs. Again, patches from multiple sources and my own carelessness have jumbled this up as well....
later, chris
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