Re: Comments about 2.0.31-pre2

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:56:02 +0100 (BST)


> - arch/i386/lib/checksum.c: According to author's comments
> this patch should improve pipelining in Pentium [patch 2]

Not a bug fix

> - drivers/char/random.c: printk format error [patch 3]

Possibly

> - net/ipv4/arp.c: this patch by me gives us some very
> interesting/sick possibilities to do proxy-arp.
> Somebody with more knowledge about arp+linux should
> check this out [patch 8]

Not a bug fix.

> - net/ipx/af_ipx: a patch known as ipx-win95-fix at
> linuxhq. Is this one stable / needed ? [patch 9]

This may not be a bad idea

> - fs/isofs/inode.c: a patch known as iso9660-fs-fix at
> linuxhq. Adds better parameter handling [patch 10]

Some use.

> - Current ftape is 3.03a, is the one in kernel still
> usable ? Maybe we should remove it or replace
> with newer one ?

Not a bug fix - Anyone can get ftape 3.03 if they want to use it - there are
also some compatibility problems over ftape 2 and 3