Re: Linux 3.0.24

From: Chris Frey
Date: Thu Mar 15 2012 - 12:51:27 EST


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:37:49AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:23:22PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:34:51PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > I'm announcing the release of the 3.0.24 kernel.
> > >
> > > All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade.
> >
> > Is the word "must" defined anywhere?
>
> Surely you have a dictionary somewhere?
>
>
> > When I read it, it looks like there are serious patches included in
> > this release, perhaps data integrity or security patches. But "must"
> > has been in an awful lot of these release notes lately, that it makes
> > me wonder if it is boilerplate.
> >
> > Just curious how to interpret this.
>
> Interpret it as written please.

Perhaps it would help if I phrased my question differently: What kind of
bug makes you decide to write "must" instead of something else?

- Chris

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