Re: minor procedural change recommendation

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:12:18 +0000 (GMT)


> He wants to release 2.2 soon (a week), and the existence of 2.2.0-preXY
> causes many people to test the recent version ...
> ... and it's good like that, because there are some problems, but it seems
> Alan has fixes for most of them on his box.

There are a pile of critical problems which aren't yet solved, and won't be
until Dave Miller does his merge with Linus. That probably defines the time
scales. Without them and Linux 2.2.0pre box can be crashed trivially, has
serious tcp performance bugs and SMP locking faults

Alan

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