Re: installed 1.3.90 version reporting error.

David A Willmore (willmore@cig.mot.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:02:22 -0500

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On Apr 17, 12:00pm, Jon Tombs wrote:
>
> This is all a cunning plan(TM) by Linus, he was beginning to believe that
> nobody was using his daily patches (read his latest patch announcements to
see
> what I mean), so the 1.3.90 kernel includes this simple but very very
> effective "mail linus if you install 1.3.90" trick. I think he should by now
> be sufficiently impressed by his faithful patch followers to not have to
repeat
> this plan for a while, not before 2.1.89 anyway.

I guess this didn't quite work right with me. I patched .89 and rebooted
(after noting that it said it was writing the new modules to
/lib/modules/1.3.89) and observed that it thought it was 1.3.89. /proc/version
confirmed this. Assuming the patch had failed mysteriously, I grabbed a
complete copy of linux-1.3.90 (at 14400 Kbits/sec) and re-built. Same results.
At about 2:30 am local time, I found the mistake in the make file. *sigh* I
went to bed.

BTW, the MD testing on the new IN2000 SCSI driver is going well. It's
unconfirmed, but there seems to be an improvement since .72. I'll let everyone
know when I'm done.

Cheers,
David

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