Re: Current Status of 1.3.88?

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:27:18 +0300 (EET DST)


On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Craig Schlenter wrote:
>
> Hi Alan, Linus

Alan is away in the US, and shouldn't be reading mail (hi, Alan, have
fun).

> Since the code freeze is on again with 1.3.88, how many of the items in
> the mail tagged on below still need attention?

Most of them should be fixed, and I'd also like to point out that the
code-freeze doesn't concern bug-fixes per se. It only means that I assume
that the basic thing is working, and that the only patches on top of
1.3.88 will be the small fixes kind of thing rather than thing like the
NFS changes (first to use the page cache and then to do multithreading
requests).

For example, I already have queued a patch-set that fixes some SCSI reset
handling problems (at least the linux-scsi channel people will recognize
the things that Leonard Zubkoff talked about some time ago). So 1.3.88 is
not going to be the same as 2.0 - you just shouldn't expect 2.0 to do
anything more.

(Also, things like arch/m68k and arch/sparc are not bothered by the
codefreeze, because those architectures aren't "really supported" by the
default kernel sources anyway, and changing the architecture-specific
things there cannot break the x86 or alpha support).

Linus