Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:53:42 -0700 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? |
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According to Alan Cox: > Remind me next time I get to deal with crap from VA customers because VA > shipped unusable NFS patches and broken PIII FXSAVE code that I'd vetoed > from RH kernels [...]
NFS and FXSAVE. Ouch. Well, let's set the stage for the future:
I'm doing kernel coordination for VA now. And I'm very careful not to break things. I may make mistakes -- heck, I *will* make mistakes; it's a big kernel, after all -- but I won't be negligent. I care greatly about stability ... just ask anyone who was around for the upgrade from Perl 5.3 to 5.4.
BTW, VA's current kernel-in-testing has Trond's (now your! :-)) NFS, rock-solid NFSD from Neil Brown and Dave Higgen, and FXSAVE support back-ported from 2.4. I hope to get much of VA's kernel-in-testing patch set into mainline 2.2 ... keeping up with N/2 patches is 4x easier than N. (Or at least it seems so.) -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com> "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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