Re: Linux-2.4.15-pre9

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:20:03 -0500


On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:52:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:44:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > I think I'm ready to hand this over to Marcelo.
> >
> > Aren't you going to include Tim Schmielau's patch to handle uptime larger than
> > 497 days? It is a cool feature we always liked to have.

> Quite frankly, right now I'm in "handle only bugs that can crash the
> system mode". Anything that takes 497 days to see is fairly low on my
> priority list. My highest priority, in fact, is to get 2.4.15 out without
> any embarrassment.

Embarrasments like having the modules install into directories
like /lib/modules/2.4.15-greased-turkey or vmlinuz installed to an
image /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.15-greased-turkey? Those sorts of embarrasments?
Or was that just a last shot to see if we were still awake in 2.4?

[...]

> Linus

Mike

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