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Re: About the -ac branch

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: About the -ac branch
From: Sebastian Dransfeld <sebastid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:28:12 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: Jordi Mallach <jordi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1003871932.20416.32.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
And, as previously mentioned, check the Mandrake cooker kernels.

seb

On 23 Oct 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Hi Jordi -
>
> You might take a look at the recent kernels in the testing/ dir, if you
> extract the patches from the SRPMS it might not be a bad place to start,
> both of these are based on -ac kernels.
>
> (note that the lvm code in the 2.4.9 kernel is broken, if that matters
> to you).
>
> -Eric
>
> On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 16:10, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > First of all, thank you for the work you are doing on XFS for Linux.
> > I've been using it for some time now and I'm very happy with it, no
> > problems till the date.
> >
> > Anyway, the problem. You know Linus and Alan's trees have diverged more
> > and more lately, and many people are prefering Alan's tree now because
> > of some decisions taken by Linus are a bit too much for a stable branch
> > (like the sudden change of VM core). Anyway, I'm one of them, but
> > currently I'm stuck with Linus because there's no patches for the -ac
> > kernels.
>
> --
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.
>



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