Subject: Linux-2.4.2
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:19:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs
uncompressed), but most of the patch by far is S/390 updates and the
new Cris architecture.
The biggest real changes that impact normal users are the two bugs
that could corrupt your harddisk. The IDE driver bug that Russell
found has, to my knowledge, never been shown to happen on anything
but his ARM machine, but for all we know it could be quite bad even
on x86. Similarly, the elevator bug could cause corruption, but
probably has not actually bit people in practice. But both are
definitely deadly at least in theory even on bog-standard common PC
hardware.
The reiserfs fix should hopefully make the "null bytes in log-files"
problem a non-issue, and along with the smbfs/HIGHMEM thing it is
certainly important for those that it can affect.
Linus
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final:
- sync up more with Alan
- Urban Widmark: smbfs and HIGHMEM fix
- Chris Mason: reiserfs tail unpacking fix ("null bytes in reiserfs
files") - Adan Richter: new cpia usb ID
- Hugh Dickins: misc small sysv ipc fixes
- Andries Brouwer: remove overly restrictive sector size check for
SCSI cd-roms
...
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more at
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02-22-002-20-NW-KN
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Cooker is going to 2.4.2 before Beta, is it not?
rj
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