Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) | From | John Alvord <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1 |
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You shouldn't fix every single defect, just the ones with wide impact. Otherwise the rcX series could go on a long time. john
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:
> Rik & Dave, > > (as I sheepishly wipes egg off my face), guess it's time for "rc2", not > "final". > > I guess I skipped too many lkml messages before posting mine. 'Sorry about > that. > > David > > At 09:26 AM 12/16/01, Dave Jones wrote: > >On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote: > > > > > IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed a > > > suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and > > > nobody has found any major problems. > > > >Except for loop deadlock, sysvfs oops, and a glut of __devexit > >non-compiles. Whilst the sysvfs oops shouldn't affect many, loop > >is used by a lot of people, and the __devexit patches would save > >us another month of debian sid users who don't bother to read archives. > > > >regards, > >Dave. > > > >-- > >| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > >| SuSE Labs > > > >- > >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/ >
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