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Re: And oh, btw.. (fwd)

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: And oh, btw.. (fwd)
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 20:17:52 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <10101051251.ZM14702@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Nathan Scott wrote:

> these folk will want to know too, Keith...
>

Ok one more round of merging coming up... give me a day or
so.

The modified RH installer is on its last round of debugging.

I have successfully installed RH7.0 onto a system running
only XFS. And had it boot up afterwards.

I should have the first iso image for download a bit later tonight.

Note we are using the latest anaconda install (7.1...blah blah blah)
which does have some bugs, I will try to document any we come across
but be warned there will be hiccups.


>
>
> From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ptg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: And oh, btw.. (fwd)
> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:48:27 +1100
>
> I was beginning to think it would never occur ...
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:01:22 -0800 (PST)
> From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: And oh, btw..
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101041546120.1153-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In a move unanimously hailed by the trade press and industry analysts as
> being a sure sign of incipient braindamage, Linus Torvalds (also known as
> the "father of Linux" or, more commonly, as "mush-for-brains") decided
> that enough is enough, and that things don't get better from having the
> same people test it over and over again. In short, 2.4.0 is out there.
>
> Anxiously awaited for the last too many months, 2.4.0 brings to the table
> many improvements, none of which come to mind to the exhausted release
> manager right now. "It's better", was the only printable quote. Pressed
> for details, Linus bared his teeth and hissed at reporters, most of which
> suddenly remembered that they'd rather cover "Home and Gardening" than the
> IT industry anyway.
>
> Anyway, have fun. And don't bother reporting any bugs for the next few
> days. I won't care anyway.
>
>                 Linus
>
> - -----
> Changes since the prerelease:
>
> David Mosberger:
>  - ia64 update
>
> NIIBE Yutaka:
>  - SuperH update
>
> Karsten Keil:
>  - re-do ISDN certification checksums
>
> Tim Waugh:
>  - VIA DMA=255 bug fix
>  - IEEE 1284 config message
>  - IEEE 1284 probe fix
>  - missing printk argument
>  - ppa driver reconnect timeout tweak
>
> Matthew Dharm:
>  - USB hotplug fix - specify exactly which fields to match on
>
> Rik Faith:
>  - drm driver synch with XFree86-4.0.2
>  - oops: we synched a bit too far. Backsync to the _real_ 4.0.2 level.
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven:
>  - m68k updates
>   - Amiga resource management updates
>   - m68k loops_per_jiffy updates
>   - m68k keyboard delay/repeat
>   - m68k SCSI updates
>   - m68k exported symbols update
>   - m68k Lance updates
>   - fbdev config fixes
>   - Amiga Ethernet updates
>   - Amiga builtin serial updates
>   - m68k config updates
>   - m68k __ashldi3
>   - Amiga Y2K fixes (a bit late, wouldn't you say?)
>   - Misc m68k updates
>   - fbdev init order fix
>   - Mac/m68k IDE updates
>   - m68k asm constraint fixes
>
> Marc ZYNGIER:
>  - SMP lockup with IrDA
>
> David Huggins-Daines:
>  - remove extra "remove_wait_queue()" in drivers/sound/cs46xx.c.  It
>    would lock up badly on nonblocking reads.
>
> Matti Aarnio:
>  - teach tulip driver about media types 5 and 6
>  - fix ATM LANE driver linkage issues
>  - fix DECNET driver unload time cleanup
>  - fix pointer comparison type warning
>  - get rid of excessive '##' token pasting that newer gcc's warn about
>
> Keith Owens:
>  - fix drm Makefile to not use the same objects built-in and in a module
>  - update modutils version numbers to match 2.4.x kernel
>
> Russell Kroll:
>  - fix radio card drivers that got the request_region sense inverted
>
> Rich Baum:
>  - Remove compile warnings with newer gcc versions for lables with no
>    expression at the end of a compound block
>
> Andreas Franck:
>  - Make the x86 semaphore implementation compile properly with current
>    gcc snapshots.  Newer gcc's will release the memory allocated for a
>    data structure too early if only the pointer to that memory is passed
>    to an asm.
>
> Alan Cox:
>  - pcxx.c: make it compile ("mseconds" -> "msec")
>  - Documentation: fix typos/glitches
>  - CCISS bugfix
>  - riscom setup bugfix
>  - toshoboe and wavelan overlarge udelay
>  - clean/bugfixes amateur radio
>  - yam/mkiss build fix
>  - old tulip chips driver update
>  - sg driver unchecked scsi_allocate_request
>  - i810 audio fix
>  - RTC CMOS locking fixes
>
> David Miller:
>  - update sparc to "loops_per_jiffy"
>  - sparc32 uses ix86-like semaphores now
>  - missing flush_dcache_page in kiovec support layer
>  - netfilter: use "long" for values operated on using bitops
>  - more empty statement warning fixes
>  - LVM 32-bit compat ioctl checks
>  - Include param.h into Sparc64's delay.h to get HZ define
>  - Fix Zilog serial port speed setting checks
>
> Neil Brown:
>  - raid5 missing unlock on degraded array
>  - knfsd inode semaphore: get it early
>
> Johannes Erdfelt:
>  - USB oops on unplug fix for dc2xx and ov511 driver
>
> Mitch Davis:
>  - prettier printout of IDE registers if < 0x100
>
> Richard Henderson:
>  - alpha "loops_per_jiffy" update
>
> Oliver Neukum:
>  - fix for SMP race in v4l open()
>
> Andreas Bombe:
>  - Makefile fix for ieee1394
>  - IEEE 1394 up-to-date
>
> Kai Germaschewski:
>  - fix ISDN diversion services name-clash (and crash)
>
> Andre Hedrick:
>  - IDE chipset update, DVD-RAM update
>
> Rik van Riel:
>  - don't deactivate partially written pages in generic_file_write
>
> Michael Lang:
>  - ibmmca upgrade: docs and small bugs
>
> Marko Kreen:
>  - big udelay's in fb drivers. Fix.
>
> Me:
>  - drivers/net/rcpci45.c: make it compile ("rcpci_pci_table" ->
>    "rcpci45_pci_table")
>  - mark_buffer_dirty() only does a "balance_dirty()" if the
>    buffer was previously clean.
>  - mm sanity: never decrement page count past zero
>  - no synchronous bdflush wait
>  - mm VM scanning and exit race cleanup: mmlist_lock
>
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>
> ---End of forwarded mail from Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --
> Nathan

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