Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:38:04 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: The "not quite valentines day release".. |
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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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