On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 12:16:38PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:01:55 +0100,
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I also do not remember reading an announcement of you about the binary
> >breakage on linux-kernel (Changes is useless for frequent kernel testers
> >because it contains to 95% unnecessary updates)
>
> The breakage was a bug, not deliberate. It only shows up with old
> modutils on kernel 2.4.0-test11. I do my testing with the recommended
> versions of software, modutils >= 2.3.16 works with 2.4.0-test11.
> Since I still get complaints from people who try to run modutils
> 2.1.121 on 2.4 kernels, I should not be surprised that Changes is being
> ignored, but it is the only official mechanism we have.
Official mechanism would be Linus' release notes.
-Andi
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