On Sat, 22 May 1999, Fred Reimer wrote:
> Second, where can I get patches for the alpha raid tools that RedHat chose
> to put in their version of the kernel that will work under 2.2.9? The
> latest official alpha patches appear to be for 2.2.6. Most of the patches
> appear to be successful, with a large percentage having offsets, some with
> fuzz, and one failing (fs.h at that!).
There has been some discussion on the list recently about 2.2.9 support.
The last I recall reading was that some reported problems and some didn't.
It's your call. If you are conservative, hold off on 2.2.9.
> As a side note, does anyone know why the hell RedHat put alpha patches in
> their production release? Out of curiosity, did they ask anyone on this
> mailing list for an opinion, or was it a unilateral decision? Curious minds
> want to know....
This was discussed on the list when RH5.2 was released, and RedHat joined
in. I believe some desire was expressed that RH adopt the 0.90 alpha
release, since it was a big improvement over 0.5 and was actually more
reliable with the new features and bug fixes.
Geof Goodrum
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