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SubjectRe: The "not quite valentines day release"..
Hi!

> Happily, I haven't heard of any new real show-stoppers, which is good
> (especially considering the fact that I gave it an extra week just to hear
> if somebody could come up with some new problems). The things fixed
> relative to 2.2.1 are:
>
> - the inode thing. If you don't know, don't worry.
> - config scripts updated
> - IO-APIC cleanups and fixes, so that people with strange motherboards
> should be able to reboot cleanly and not get unexpected interrupts.
> - 2kB sector media (ie mostly MO) fixes. See all the warnings on the
> lists about fdisk confusion etc if you have one of these things.
> - IDE disk cleanups/fixes (geometry and autodetection)
> - PS/2 mouse hides ACK's again
> - pty crash fix
> - some network driver fixes (out-of-memory and shared interrupts)
> - some sound and video updates.
> - lockd cookie fixes
> - nfsd readdir reply cache fix
> - filesystem/VM deadlock avoidance (new deamon: kpiod)

Did you revert that recursive-locks-thingie? They seem to hit lots of
drivers in non-trivial manner (ask jj), and seem to be no longer
neccessary?

Pavel
--
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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