Re: Linux 2.2.3-pre3

Catalin BOIE (util@deuroconsult.ro)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:35:17 +0200 (EET)


On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> There's a new pre-patch for 2.2.3, one that I was already going to make
> the final 2.2.3, but I decided that I'm chicken after all, and that I
> might as well let some people check that it's sane.
>
> This pre-2.2.3 does:
> - Fix some silly NFS problems. Some of them can be quite bad: lost error
> notification of asynchronous writes, which can result in horrible
> problems (including lost email etc). Most people wouldn't ever notice,
> so don't panic, but forgetting about the error notification certainly
> counts as a brown paper bag.
> - Alpha should compile and work again
> - Various driver updates. This is actually the bulk of the patch, with
> IRDA updates, some scsi, video and sound driver updates etc.
> - The "mmap forgets about the file that was mapped" bug that has been
> discussed here. Only affected certain drivers.
> - shaper atomicity fixes
> - various minor TCP fixes
> - buffer growth fix and recursive IO memory reclaim fix from Andrea
> - network filter compiles ;)
> - unix gc fixes
>
> Tell me if you see problems, because I'm going to release it as 2.2.3
> unless people tell me otherwise..
>
> Linus
>
>
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This pre repair wait_on_bh problem?

Thanks!
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