Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:06:40 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Are -final releases realy FINAL? (Was Re: kernel 2.4.14 compiling fail for loop device) |
| |
linus goofed when he missed the two refrences to this function.
however as he pointed out earlier it was a function that could never get called.
removing a function that can never be called comes pretty close to a trivial change to me.
even with this mistake it far fewer changes then we have seen in some of the past -final releases so at the very least it's a step in the right direction.
David Lang
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:13:14 +0600 > From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org> > To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, torvalds@transmeta.com > Cc: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>, Terminator <jimmy@mtc.dhs.org>, > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Are -final releases realy FINAL? (Was Re: kernel 2.4.14 > compiling fail for loop device) > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:02:36PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 22:43, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > > > Did anyone have this problem with pre8??? > > > > Nope, it was added post-pre8 to final. The deactivate_page function was > > removed completely. > > Look, Linus. Things should _not_ happen this way. > > Why do we add non-trivial changes when going from last -preX of a test kernel > series to -final? > > Please make the last stable -preX the -final _without_ any changes. This is > the third time this caused problem in recent times (2.4.11-dontuse, parport > compile problems and now loop.o), and why don't we learn from previous > mistakes? > > Isn't it stupid that some tarballs in the /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ do not even > compile, while those in /pub/linux/kernel/testing/ does? > > Regards, > > Anuradha > > -- > > Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.14-pre7) > > I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at the rate > of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour ... > -- F. H. Wales (1936) > > - > 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/ > - 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/
|  |