Re: support of older compilers

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> [Ob l-k]
> 
> I have not yet investigated, but my (vanilla) 2.6.9
> has a mouse problem that my vanilla 2.6.8.1 does not have:
> it starts selecting text as soon as I touch it for the first
> time, as if the initialization created a fake mouse-down event.

USB? We have another bug that was just root-caused to USB initialization 
sending a "clear suspend" packet, which apparently confuses some devices.

> [old stuff]
> 
> > There are probably people even using linux-1.2.
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux knuth 1.2.11 #27 Sun Jul 30 03:39:01 MET DST 1995 i486
> 
> (486 DX/2, 66MHz, 8 MB)
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       281572 Jul 30  1995 zImage-1.2.11
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       277476 Apr  1  1995 zImage-1.2.2

Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around for 
nostalgic reasons?

		Linus
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